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External Eye Flashcards

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What is used to test near vision?

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Rosenbaum chart or newspaper print held 14in away

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What charts are used to test far vision?

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Snellen (20ft) and Sloan (10ft)

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Define hyperopia

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Eye has far sight but poor near sight

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Define myopia

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Eye has near sight but poor far sight

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Define presbyopia

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With age lens loses it’s elasticity– diminished near sight but continued far sight

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What are vitreous floaters

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> 50, moving cobwebs, spots, smudges, etc.

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How to test peripheral vision

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Moving or wiggling fingers slowly into field of vision from top, bottom and sides of each eye.

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What cranial nerves are being tested through the cardinal planes of gaze?

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3, 4 & 6

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What two tests can be used to check symmetrical alignment of the eyes and therefore binocular fixation?

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Corneal light reflex and cover-uncover

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What is lid (lag) retraction?

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Upper lid is slow to react as eye looks down. Exposes sclera between lid margin & iris.

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What could lid retraction suggest?

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Hyperthyroidism, CN 7 damage, or tumor behind eye

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What is lid (sag) ptosis?

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Congenital or acquired weakness of levator muscle or paresis of a branch of CN 3 causing lid to droop compared to other eye.

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What is Blephaitis

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Inflammation of eyelash follicles & Meibomian glands. Red, swollen, crusty lid margins. Allergies, seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis

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What is a Stye (hordeolum)

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Bacterial infection of a gland in an eyelash follicle. Well circumscribed red, swollen, tender pustule.

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What is a chalazion?

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Hard, painless papule on the eyelid. Due to obstruction of Meibowmian gland.

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What is Ectropion?

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Loss of orbicularis oculi muscle tone with ageing. Lower lid turns outward interfering with proper tear drainage. CN 7 palsy

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What is Entropion?

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Inversion of lower lid due to scar tissue formation on inner surface of lid. Eyelashes irritate cornea & conjunctiva

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What is Dacryocystitis

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Inflammation of the tear sac secondary to chronic obstruction or narrowing of the nasolacrimal duct. Painful swollen nodule between nose & eye.

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What is the Conjuctiva?

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

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What is contagious conjunctivitis?

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Self-limiting bacterial or viral infection. Red, burning, itchy eyes. Discharge can stick eyes together at night. Minimal pain. Vessels dilate toward center of eye sparing limbus.

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What is allergic or chemical conjunctivitis?

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Less thick discharge. Red, swollen, itchy. Environmental irritants.

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What is pinguecula?

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Yellow elastic fibers from plaque on either side of cornea. Chronic irritation to bulbar conjunctiva.

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What is Pterygium?

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Sunny, dusty, windy conditions. Stimulate growth of pinguecula forming a vascular membrane extending over cornea.

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What is subconjunctival hemorrhage

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Microtraumas like coughing, straining, sneezing. Cause conjunctiva vessel to break trapping blood between clear mucous membrane & sclera

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What is the sclera?

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Tough, white outer coat of eye

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What is a yellow sclera?

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Sclera thins with age, fatty deposits. Jaundice. Antimalarial drugs.

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What is a blue sclera?

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Osteogenesis imperfecta allows choroid to show through

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What is a brown sclera?

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Patches of melanin, common in dark complexions

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What is the cornea?

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Highly reflective, dome-shaped, transparent extension of the sclera. Covers the iris & pupil.

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What are corneal abrasions?

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Painful, visual acuity disturbed, conjunctival vessels radiate out from limbus. Aggravated by blinking.

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What is a corneal arcus/ring?

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Grayish band along edge of limbus. 60

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What is a Kayser-Fleischer ring?

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Golden-brown band around limbus of cornea. Wilson’s disease- copper accumulation.

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What is iritis?

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Inflammation of iris due to trauma, secondary or idiopathic. Red, teary, constricted, sluggish pupil. Pain, decreased visual acuity.

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What should the pupil look like?

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PERRLA.. Equal, round, & reactive to light & accommodation

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What is the direct light reflex?

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Pupil should constrict briskly to light directed at it

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What is the consensual (indirect) light reflex?

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Contralateral pupil should constrict.

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If the Contralateral pupil does not constrict what does that mean?

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There’s a problem along the neural reflex path

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What is the accommodation reflex?

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Eyes constrict & converge as object moves closer

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What is physiologic (congenital) anisocoria?

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Pupil inequality

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What is Anisocoria?

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Inequality of pupil size, congenital or trauma

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What is Adie’s tonic pupil

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Fixed, dilated pupil with poor response to pupillary reflex; idiopathic

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What is coloboma?

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Failure of iris to close during fetal development.. Key-hole shaped pupil

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What is Synechia

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Irregular shaped pupil from adhesion of iris to cornea in front of it, or lens behind it. Blocks flow of aqueous fluid

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What causes Synechia

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Trauma, surgery, cataracts, glaucoma, iritis

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What is argyll Robertson pupil

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Decreased or absent response to light reflexes; pupils response to accommodation

45
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What disease may cause argyll Robertson pupil

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Syphilis

46
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What is Horner syndrome

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Miosis, ptosis, due to interruption of sympathetic nerve supply to eye

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What is Horner syndrome often associated with

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Damage to cervical sympathetic trunk from mediastinal tumors, bronchogenic or metastatic tumors

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What is the most common form of glaucoma

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Chronic glaucoma

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What is conjunctivitis

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Dilated vessels radiate from periphery toward limbus of cornea but don’t touch limbus, vision is clear, itchy, burning

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What is corneal abrasion & iritis

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Reported injury to eye followed by conjunctival & perilimbal injection, vision affected, constricted pupil, ocular pain

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What is acute glaucoma

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Sudden, unexpected, escalating eye pain, altered vision in one eye, corneal edema, perilimbal & conjunctival injection

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