Eyelid Conditions

Question 1

What are small modified sebaceous glands connected with the hair follicles of the eyelashes?

Answer 1

Glands of Zeis

Question 2

What are the tubular sweat glands that are located anterior to the eyelashes?

Answer 2

Glands of Moll

Question 3

What is a common condition that causes inflammation of the eyelids?

Answer 3

Blepharitis

Question 4

What type of Belpharitis is anterior and affects the sebacious glands along the front of the eye at the base of the eyelashes?

Answer 4

Staphylcoccal

Question 5

What type of Blepharitis is a papulosquamous disorder found on sebum rich areas of scalp, face and trunk and often involves the eyelid margin?

Answer 5

Seborrheic

Question 6

What type of Blepharitis is posterior and is a blockage of Meibomian gland leading to a chalazion?

Answer 6

Meibomianitis

Question 7

What is swelling of upper lid due to external stye; purulent infection (Staphylococcus folliculitis) of the gland of Zeis at outer lid angle?

Answer 7

Hordeolum

Question 8

What is a sterile granulomatous inflammation of a meibomian gland characterized by painless swelling of upper or lower lid?

Answer 8

Chalazion

Question 9

What is a loss of tone and laxity of orbicularis muscle with drooping of the lower lid?

Answer 9

Senile Ectropion

Question 10

What is characterized by loss of tone in orbicularis muscle with facial paralysis

Answer 10

Paralytic Ectropion