Eye Vocab Flashcards by Skylar Bolender | Brainscape

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Glaucoma

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Increased pressure in eye causing blindness

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Cataract

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clouding of lens

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Scleritis

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Inflammation of sclera

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Myopia

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Nearsightedness

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Emmatropia

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Normal eye, images seen on retina

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Hypermetropia

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Farsightedness

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Nyctalopia

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The inability to see at dim light or night

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Presbyopia

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Farsightedness caused by loss elasticity of lens

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Lacrimal puncta

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Opening of the lacrimal duct

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Refraction

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Light rays bends when at the surface of 2 mediums

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Ciliary body

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Releases aqueous humor

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Optic disc

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Raised disc on the retina, creates a blind spot

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Sclera

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Whites of eyeball

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Astigmatism

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Defect in eye or lens caused my lens not being being able to change shapes

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Central fovea

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Located in macular part of retina,best vision

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