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The ______ is a clear, cellophane-like tissue that lines the inside surface of the eyelids - ✔✔Bulbar conjunctiva & Palpebral conjunctiva The ______ muscle has direct control over the focusing ability of the eye - ✔✔Ciliary The choroid consists primarily of blood vessels that nourish the: - ✔✔Crystalline Lens The _________ is the area located inside the eye, behind the iris, and in front of the lens - ✔✔Posterior Chamber The area of the macula where visual acuity is the sharpest and is used for daytime and color vision is called the: - ✔✔Fovea centralis The thick jelly-like substance that fills the eyeball behind the lens is called the: - ✔✔Vitreous humor Each eye has how many muscles to assist in ocular movement? - ✔✔Six The area of the retina responsible for seeing detail is the: - ✔✔Macula The area that is located behind the cornea and in front of the iris is the: - ✔✔Anterior Chamber Which of the following is the ability of the eye to focus objects at varying distances? - ✔✔Accommodation
What is the most commonly used ophthalmic dye which is available in liquid form or impregnated on dry, paper filter strips? - ✔✔Sodium Fluorescein What is the therapeutic drug used to reduce inflammation? - ✔✔Corticosteroids The optic nerve is damaged from increased intraocular pressure - ✔✔Glaucoma These are caused by mechanical simulation of nerves in the retina - ✔✔Flashes Thickening of the connective tissue on the sides of the cornea, usually in the 3 & 9 o' clock positions - ✔✔Pinguecula Commonly known as pink eye - ✔✔Conjunctivitis Small blood vessel rupture between the sclera and conjunctiva - ✔✔Subconjunctivalhemorrhage Inflammation of the eyelids - ✔✔Blepharitis Caused by debris in the tears and in the fluid inside the eye - ✔✔Floaters The retina pulls away from the rest of the eyeball - ✔✔Retinal detachment The pores in the eyelid become blocked and inflamed, commonly called a stye - ✔✔Hordeolum This causes fragile blood vessels on the retina to leak or break - ✔✔Diabetic Retionopathy Advancing age causes the central area of vision to break down - ✔✔Macular Degeneration A small lump on the eyelid - ✔✔Chalazion
The most common reason patients stop wearing contact lenses is? - ✔✔Non-compliance A contact lens prescription and spectacle prescription may differ because - ✔✔Of the vertex distance between the contact lens and the spectacle lens The edge thickness of a contact lens - ✔✔Is an important factor in the comfort of the lens When writing up a contact lens order for a soft lens, it is necessary to specify: - ✔✔Lens brand or type, the base curve, overall diameter, and the lens power The diastolic pressure reflects - ✔✔The amount of force when the heart is at rest What is an eye in which the image is not focused at one point but rather two points? - ✔✔Astigmatism What is the ability of the eyes to focus objects from distance to near called? - ✔✔Accommodation What is with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye focused directly on the retina called? - ✔✔Emmetropia What with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye focused before the retina resulting in blurry distant vision called? - ✔✔Hyperopia What is with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye focused before the retina resulting in blurry distant vision called? - ✔✔Myopia What is the loss of ability to see clearly at near called? - ✔✔Presbyopia What is a nonspecific term that means the patient has a refractive condition called? - ✔✔Ametropia
A more complete look at the back of the eye. Often done as part of a complete eye exam - ✔✔Pupil dialation The technical term for pressure inside of the eye is known as - ✔✔Intraocular pressure The specific instrument used to measure the pressure inside the eye is called - ✔✔Goldman tonometer The test used to measure pressure inside the eye is - ✔✔Tonometry Conditions that affect the whole body are called? - ✔✔systemic diseases An instrument that is worn on the examiners head and used to view the back of the eye is called - ✔✔Binocular indirect ophthalmoscope An instrument that measures the curvature of the cornea is called - ✔✔Keratometer or ophthalmometer A test that does not require responses from the patient is called - ✔✔Objective The instrument that is used for manual refracting is called a - ✔✔Phoropter The part of the eye exam that serves as a guide for the tests to be performed during the office visit is called - ✔✔Case history An instrument that can obtain an estimate of the patient's prescription without the patient's response is called a - ✔✔Retinoscope The term that represents how well the two eyes work together is known as - ✔✔Binocular vision An instrument that gives the examiner a magnified view of the structures of the eye-particularly the front structures of the eye- is called a - ✔✔Biomicroscope or slit lamp
Which of the following lens materials is the most shatter-resistant? - ✔✔Polycarbonate Which type of lens corrects vision at three distances? - ✔✔Trifocal The part of the frame that surrounds each lens, holding the lens in place within the frame is the - ✔✔Eyewire The part of the frame that extends from the frame front, back, and alongside the head, and over the ear of the wearer is - ✔✔Temple The widest horizontal dimension of the lens opening of a frame is the - ✔✔A Dimension A picture representation of the pressure points between the eyeglass frame and the patients head is the
- ✔✔Fitting triangle Which of the following tilts results when a pair of spectacles is tilted so that the bottom of the lenses is closer to the face than the top? - ✔✔Pantoscopic The largest diameter through the lens is called the - ✔✔Effective diameter A lens that converges parallel light is called - ✔✔Convex (+) The unit of measure for ophthalmic lenses is - ✔✔diopter This lens diverges parallel light - ✔✔Concave (-) A lens that displaces light rather than focuses light is called - ✔✔Prism A lens that has one curve is called a - ✔✔spherical
The point of a prism is called the - ✔✔apex A lens where one part has no power and 90 degrees away there is power is called a - ✔✔pl-cylinder A lens used to treat myopia/hyperopia and astigmatism is called a - ✔✔sph/cylindrical The middle value of a lens prescription is called the - ✔✔cylindrical The position of the cylinder in the lens is called the - ✔✔axis
