Eye Overview and Introduction to the Eye Exam - Graf and Eye Surgeries - Kugler Flashcards
define: Emmetropia:
Visual condition in which an infinitely distant fixated object is imaged sharply on the retina (without an accommodative response)
What vision does this diagram represent?
Emmetropia
Refraction:
Altering of the pathway of light from its original direction, result of passing from one medium to another
Ametropia:
Refractive condition in which parallel rays do not focus on the retina; a deviation from emmetropia (abnormal vision)
define Myopia:
Refractive condition in which parallel rays of light entering the eye, focus in front of the retina; nearsightedness
Corrected using LASIK surgery
What vision does this diagram represent?
Myopia
Lenses for myopia
- Minus
- Concave
- Diverging
define Hyperopia:
Refractive condition in which parallel rays of light entering the eye f_ocus behind the retina_; farsightedness
What vision does this diagram represent?
Hyperopia
Lenses for hyperopia
- Plus
- Convex
- Converging
define: Astigmatism
Refractive condition in which rays emanating from a single point are focused as two line images (blurry vision at all distances), generally at right angles to each other; due to unequal refraction of the incident light in different meridians
Eye becomes astigmatic when any of its refracting surfaces assumes a toroidal shape
Eye is not perfectly round (ex: football shaped not basketball shaped)
What type of asitgmatism is this?
compound myopic astigmatism
What type of astigmatism is this?
Compound hyperopic astigmatism
What type of astigmatism is this?
Mixed astigmatism
define Presbyopia:
Reduction in accommodative ability occurring normally with age and necessitating a plus lens addition for satisfactory seeing at near
Amplitude decreases from childhood to age 75