Common Conditions Involving the Conjunctiva

Question 1

What is conjunctiva?

Answer 1

The mucous membrane lining the inside of the lids and the visible part of the sclera.

Question 2

The conjunctiva of the inside of the lids is:

Answer 2

Thick and pink tissue

Question 3

The conjunctiva of the visible part of the sclera is:

Answer 3

thing and transparent tissue

Question 4

What is another name for pink eye?

Answer 4

Contagious conjunctivitis

Question 5

What type of infection is contagious conjunctivitis?

Answer 5

Bacterial or viral

Question 6

Pink eye causes what signs and symptoms?

Answer 6

Red, burning, itchy eyes with a discharge that tends to stick the eyelids together overnight.

Question 7

Is contagious conjunctivitis painful?

Answer 7

minimal

Question 8

Does contagious conjunctivitis affect the vision?

Answer 8

no

Question 9

How do the blood vessels dilate in contagious conjunctivitis?

Answer 9

From periphery towards the center of the eye

Question 10

When the blood vessels dilate towards the eye in pink eye they spare what area?

Answer 10

Limbs (area surrounding the cornea)

Question 11

What conjunctivitis is caused by environmental irritants?

Answer 11

Allergic or chemical conjunctivitis

Question 12

What are the signs and symptoms of allergic or chemical conjunctivitis?

Answer 12

Same as pink eye but perhaps less thick discharge

Question 13

Allergic or chemical conjunctivitis is caused by what?

Answer 13

Environmental irritants

Question 14

Yellow elastic fibers form a plaque on either side of the cornea resulting from chronic irritation to the bulbar conjunctiva.

Answer 14

pinguecula

Question 15

What kind of conditions can cause pinguecula?

Answer 15

Sunny, dusty, windy conditions

Question 16

Pinguecula is chronic irritation to what conjunctiva?

Answer 16

bulbar

Question 17

When the sunny, dusty, windy conditions may stimulate growth of the pinguecula forms a vascular membrane that may extend over the cornea.

Answer 17

pteryguim

Question 18

How does pinguecula differ from pterygium?

Answer 18

Pterygium has a vascular membrane formed from the pinguecula?

Question 19

Microtraumas like coughing, sneezing, or straining may cause a conjunctiva vessel to break trapping blood between the clear mucous membrane and the sclera.

Answer 19

subconjuctival hemorrhage

Question 20

A subconjuctival hemorrhage traps blood between what?

Answer 20

The clear mucous membrane and the sclera

Question 21

Subconjuctival hemorrhages are caused by what?

Answer 21

microtraumas (coughing, sneezing, straining)