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Evidence for the major contribution of evaporation to tear film thinning between blinks

Samuel H Kimball1, P Ewen King-Smith, Jason J Nichols

  • 1College of Optometry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1280, USA.

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
|August 7, 2010
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