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Chapter 12 Vocab Flashcards

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A reduced ability to smell

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Hyposmia

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Pain relief

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Analgesia

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People and animals quickly learn to avoid a food if it upsets the digestive system

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Taste aversion

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Scope to examine the eye; an observer can peer through the pupil and see magnified image of retina and blood vessels

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Ophthalmoscope

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With aging, lens lose elasticity; require reading glasses

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Presbyopia

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Inability to see well at low light levels

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Night blindness

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An absence or deficiency of one of the three types of cones from the retina cannot distinguish some colors from others

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Colorblind

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Produced sounds from the cochlea

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Otoacoustic emissions

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A loss of transparency of the lens

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Cataract

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The most common cause of blindness in the U.S.

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Glaucoma

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Significant or total hearing loss

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Deafness

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Results from an increased amount of endolymph that enlarges the membranous labyrinth

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Meniere’s Disease

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An acute infection of the middle ear caused primarily by bacteria and associated with infections of the nose and throat

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Otitis media

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Degeneration of the macula lutea of the retina in persons 50 yrs and older

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Age-related macular disease

AMD

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Total lack of the sense of smell

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Anosmia

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A device that transplants sounds into electrical signals that can be interpreted by the brain

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Cochlear implant

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An inflammation of the conjunctiva

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Conjunctivitis

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Detachment of the neural portion of the retina from the pigment epithelium

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Detached retina

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Surgery with a laser to correct the curvature of the cornea

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LASIK

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A rapid involuntary movement of the eyeballs

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Nystagmus

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Earache

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Otalgia

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A tumor arising from immature retinal cells; 2% childhood cancers

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Retinoblastoma

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An area of reduced or lost vision in the visual field

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Scotoma

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An imbalance in the extrinsic eye muscles that causes a misalignment of one eye so that its line of vision is not parallel with the other (cross eyed) and both are not pointed at same object

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Strabismus

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A ringing, roaring, or clicking in the ears

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Tinnitus

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A serious form of conjunctivitis and the greatest single cause of blindness; Chlamydia trachomatis

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Trachoma

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A sensation of spinning or movement in which the world seems to revolve or the person seems to revolve in space

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Vertigo

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