Ch 2 Flashcards

1
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In oscillation that travels through a medium by transferring energy from one partical or point to another without causing any permanent displacement of the medium

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Wave

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2
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A quantum of visible light or other form of electromagnetic radiation demonstrating both particle and wave properties

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Photon

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3
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To take up something such as light, noise, or energy and not transmit it at all

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Absorb

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4
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To disperse something such as light in an irregular fashion

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Scatter

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5
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To redirect something that strikes a surface especially light, sound, or heat usually back toward its point of origin

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Reflect

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6
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To convey something from one place or thing to another

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Transmit

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7
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One to alter the course of a wave of energy that passes into something from another medium, as water does to light entering it from the air. Two to measure the degree of refraction in a lens or Eye

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Refract

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8
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A picture or likeness

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Image

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9
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The transparent window into the eyeball

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Cornea

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10
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Allowing light to pass through with no interruption, so that objects on the other side can be clearly seen

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Transparent

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11
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The watery fluid in the anterior chamber of the eye

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Aqueous humor

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12
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The len inside the eye that enables the changing of focus

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Lens

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13
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The dark circular opening at the center of the iris in the eye where light enters the eye

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People

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14
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The transparent fluid that fills the vitreous chamber in the posterior part of life

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Vitreous humor

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15
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A light sensitive membrane in the back of the eye that contains rods and cones, which receive an image from the lens and send it to the brain through optic nerve

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Retina

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16
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The condition in which there is no refractive error, because the reflective power of the eye is perfectly matched to the length of the eyeball

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Emmetropia

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17
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A unit of measurement of the optic power of the lens. It is equal to the reciprocal of the focal links, in meters. A 2 diopter lens will bring parallel rays of light into focus at half meter

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Diopter

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18
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Nearsightedness, a common condition in which light entering the eye is focused in front of the retina and distant objects cannot be seen sharply

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Myopia

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19
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Farsightedness a condition in which light entering the eye is focused behind the retina and accommodation is required in order to see near objects clearly

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Hyperopia

20
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A visual defects caused by the unequal curving of one or more of the refractive surfaces of that I usually the cornea

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Astigmatism

21
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The process by which the eye changes its focus

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Accommodation

22
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Literally old site the age related loss of accommodation which makes it difficult to focus on near objects

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presbyopia

23
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An opacity of the crystalline lens

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Cataract

24
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To convert from one form of energy to another

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Transduce

25
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The back layer of the right now with the eye doctor sees through an ophthamoscope

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Fund us

26
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A light sensitive receptor in the retina

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Photo receptor

27
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A photo receptor specialized for night vision

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Rod

28
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A photo receptor specialized for fine vision acuity and color

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Cone

29
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A small pit near the center of the macula that contains the highest concentration of cones and no rods it is the portion of the retina that produces the highest visual acuity and serves as the point of fixation

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Phobia

30
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The distance between the retinal image in the fovea

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Eccentricity

31
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The part of the photo receptor that contains photo pigment molecules

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Outer segment

32
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The part of the photo receptor that lies between the outer segment in the cell nucleus

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Inner segment

33
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The location where axons terminate at the synapse for transmission of information about the release of chemical transmitters

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Synaptic terminal

34
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Though eye-catching part of the visual pigment of the retina

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Chromophore

35
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The visual pigment found in rods

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Rhodopsin

36
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A photo pigment that is sensitive to ambient light

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Melanopsin

37
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I specialize retina so that context both photoreceptor and bipolar cells

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Horizontal cell

38
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Antagonistic neural interaction between adjacent regions of the retina

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Lateral inhibition

39
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A retinal cell found in the inner synaptic layer that makes synaptic contacts with bipolar cells ganglion cells and other amacrine cells

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Amacrine cell

40
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A wreck yourself that synapses with either rods or cones in with horizontal cells and then passes the signals onto ganglion cells

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Bipolar cell

41
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A bipolar retinal so who’s processes are spread out to receive input from multiple cones

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Diffuse bipolar cell

42
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One the ability to perceive be at the sense organs to Extrem responsiveness to radiation especially to light of a specific wavelengths three the ability to respond to transmit signals

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Sensitivity

43
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A measure of the finest detail that can be resolved by the eyes

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Visual acuity

44
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Hey small bipolar cells in the central retinal that receives input from a single cone

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Midget bipolar cell

45
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A bipolar cell that response to an increase in light captured by the cones

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On bipolar cell