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Orbit anatomy/development Flashcards

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What is the function of the lateral rectus?

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Abducts pupil (look outward)

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What is D?

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Visual retina

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What is the lens placode? What structures arise from it?

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A thickening of the surface ectoderm, develops into the lens

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What is S?

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Venous sinus

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What is the anterior chamber of the eye?

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The chamber between the cornea and iris

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What is the function of the superior oblique?

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Abducts and depresses pupil (look down and out)

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What is K?

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Macula

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What is the function of the superior rectus?

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Adducts and elevates pupil (look up and in)

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What is Q?

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Cornea

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What does this image suggest?

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Graves orbitopathy (big eye muscles, bulging eyes)

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What does the optic nerve (II) do for the eye?

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It provides special sensory neurons for vision

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What is R?

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Irido-corneal angle

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What is E?

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Choroid

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What is G?

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Subarachnoid space and pia

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What causes dilated pupils?

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Loss of parasympathetic innervation to the pupil constrictor fibers

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What is the result of trochlear nerve damage?

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Difficulty depressing the eye from an adducted position

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What is F?

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Dura and arachnoid

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What is N?

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Suspensory ligaments

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What is the purpose of the aqueous humor in the eye?

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It provides metabolic exchange with the avascular cornea (and lens)

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Pain when trying to focus for close up vision might indicate an infection in which of the following?

a) orbicularis oculi
b) cornea
c) choroid layer
d) pupil dilator
e) ciliary body

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e) ciliary body

ciliary body has the muscle that contracts to allow the lens to round up for close up vision

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What is L?

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Infraorbital foramen

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What is a detached retina?

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A blow to the head can cause the visual retina to fall away from the pigmented retina because they are never fully fused

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What is Bell’s palsy?

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Facial nerve (VII) dysfunction and the resulting loss of the actions of the muscles of facial exxpression

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What is Horner’s syndrome?

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Damage to sympathetic organization that causes ptosis secondary to a mullers muscle abnormality

Associated with miosis (constricted pupil) and anhydrosis (no sweating)

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What bones make up the lateral wall of the orbit?

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Greater wing of sphenoid bone, zygomatic bone

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26
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What are three causes of neurogenic ptosis?

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Horner’s syndrome

cranial nerve 3 palsy

myasthenia gravis

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C - Optic nerve

this is the lesser wing of the sphenoid bone with the optic canal that contains the optic nerve and ophthalmic artery

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What is the testing position for the inferior oblique?

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Look in and up

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How do you test for ocular eye motion generally?

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If its a muscle with only one function (ex. lateral rectus), just do that function

If its a muscle with two functions, you would have them move the typical direction vertically (either up or down) and have their eye positioned the oposite direction horizontally (either out or in) - ex. for superior rectus have them look outward and then up

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What is the ectodermal optic cup? What structures arise from it?

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It is an extension of the neural tube

It gives rise to the optic nerve, visual retina, and pigmented retina (part of the iris and ciliary body)

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31
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What is blepharitis?

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Chronic inflammation of lid margin - causes foreign body sensation, burning, mattering, redness

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What is the structure of the sclera?

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It is continuous with the cornea and formed from vascular collagen fibers in random orientation

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What is A?

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Iris

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Which muscles adduct the pupils?

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Medial rectus, superior rectus, inferior rectus

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What are the nerve fibers of the facial nerve (VII)?

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Branchiomotor fibers to the orbicularis oculi muscle, presynaptic parasympathetics for the lacrimal gland

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What is the testing position for the inferior rectus?

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Look out and down

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What is N?

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Perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone

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What is A?

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Medial rectus

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What is the result of oculomotor nerve damage?

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Down and out position (only lateral rectus and superior oblique working), pupil dilated (loss of parasympathetics), eyelid droopy (loss of levator palpebrae superioris)

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What is the posterior chamber of the eye?

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The chamber between the iris and lens where aqueous humor is produced

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What soft tissue is related to the optic canal in lesser wing of sphenoid?

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Optic nerve and ophthalmic artery

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What condition does this image suggest?

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Graves orbitopathy

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43
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What is Graves orbitopathy?

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A thyroid eye disease that causes soft tissue swelling and scaring that can lead to proptosis, double vision, and vision loss (compressed optic nerve)

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What is I?

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Optic disc

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45
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What is the difference between preseptal cellulitis and orbital cellulitis?

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Preseptal is anterior to the orbital septum and is not as serious (orbital cellulitis can spread to brain)

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What is the path of aqueous humor in the eye?

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It is produced in the posterior chamber, passes through the pupil to the anterior chamber where it enters venous circulation via the scleral venous sinus

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What is E?

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Nasal bone

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What types of nerves are in the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve?

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General sensory fibers, postsynaptic parasympathetic fibers from ciliary ganglion (originating in nerve III), and postsynaptic sympathetics (cell bodies in superior cervical ganglion of sympathetic trunk)

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What is C?

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Inferior rectus

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What is J?

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Central artery and vein of retina

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What soft tissue is related to the supraorbital notch/foramen?

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Supraorbital nerve (V1 branch of trigeminal)

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What are the branches of the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve (V1)?

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Frontal (supraorbital and supratrochlear)

Nasociliary (long and short ciliary, anterior and posterior ethmoidal nerves)

Lacrimal nerves

53
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What does the facial nerve (VII) do for the eye?

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It innervates the orbicularis oculi muscle in the eyelids and surrounding orbit (closes eyelids and protect the eye)

54
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What is the vitreous chamber?

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The large central chamber of the eye filled with vitreous fluid

55
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What is the pathway for orbital venous blood?

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Orbit –> cavernous sinus –> superior and inferior petrosal sinuses –> sigmoid sinus –> internal jugular vein

56
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What is the cause of congenital myopathic ptosis?

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Fibrofatty levator muscle with poor levator function

57
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What does the abducens nerve (VI) do for the eye?

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It innervates the lateral rectus with somatomotor fibers

58
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What is C?

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Supraorbital foramen/notch

59
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What is O?

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Lens

60
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What is the surface ectoderm of the eye? What structures arise from it?

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A primordia of the eye that forms the epidermis of eyelids, conjunctival sacs, corneal epithelium, and lacrimal gland parenchyma

61
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What is a chalazion?

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Plugging of sebaceous gland around eye

62
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What is M?

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Middle nasal concha

63
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What is aponeurotic ptosis?

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Stretch of levator attachment to the lid from age or trauma

64
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What muscle protracts the eyelid?

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Orbicularis muscle

65
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What is E?

A

Superior oblique

66
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What is B?

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Ciliary body

67
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What is D?

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Maxilla

68
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What is glaucoma?

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A disease caused by a rise in intra-ocular pressure from accumulation of aqueous humor

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What is the corneal reflex?

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A reflex from the corneal layer of the eye that elicits a blinking response and tear production in response to touch/pain

70
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What soft tissue is related to the superior orbital fissure between greater and lesser wings of sphenoid?

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All other major nerves and vessels entering or leaving the orbit

71
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The lack of fusion of the two layers of the optic cup is the embryological basis for a detached retina, where the visual retina falls away from what?

a) choroid layer
b) pigmented retina
c) sclera
d) cornea
e) vitreous body

A

b) pigmented retina

72
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What is G?

A

Zygomatic frontal process

73
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What is I?

A

Zygomaticofacial foramen

74
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What causes pinpoint pupils?

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Loss of sympathetic innervation (Horner’s syndrome) to the radial smooth muscle fibers of the iris

75
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Which muscles elevate the pupils?

A

Superior rectus, inferior oblique

76
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What are possible causes of proptosis (bulging eye)?

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Graves orbitopathy

Orbital cellulitis (infection of eye socket)

Orbital tumors

77
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What is a hordeolum?

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A stye - pustule of hair follicle around eye

78
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What is H?

A

Zygomatic orbital surface

79
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What is P?

A

Aqueous humor

80
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What is C?

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Ora serrata

81
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What is the function of the inferior oblique?

A

Abduct and elevate pupil (look up and out)

82
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What is F?

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Lacrimal

83
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What is the testing position for the superior oblique?

A

Look in and down

84
Q

What structures are medial and inferior to the orbit?

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Ethmoid and maxillary paranasal air sinuses (respectively)

85
Q

What structures arise from head somites?

A

Extraocular eye muscles

86
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What is the result of abducens nerve damage?

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Affected pupil remains in an adducted position (loss of lateral rectus)

87
Q

What is K?

A

Inferior nasal concha

88
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What is the testing position for the superior rectus?

A

Look out and up

89
Q

What is J?

A

Vomer

90
Q

What soft tissue is related to the inferior orbital fissure?

A

Vein connections from the orbit to the pterygoid plexus of veins

91
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Exophthalmos (protruding eye) can be produced when blood in the ophthalmic veins is reversed from a tear of the internal carotid artery in what location?

a) superior orbital fissure
b) optic canal
c) sphenoidal sinus
d) cavernous sinus
e) inferior orbital fissure

A

d) cavernous sinus

ophthalmic vein drains into the cavernous (venous) sinus surrounding the body of the sphenoid bone

92
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Which muscle elevates the eyelid?

A

Levator muscle, mullers muscle

93
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Which muscles abduct the pupils?

A

Lateral rectus, superior oblique, inferior oblique

94
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What is the structure of the cornea?

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It is continuous with the sclera and made from avascular collagen fibers

95
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What causes exophthalmos?

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Exophthalmos (protruding eyes) that are caused by a tear of the internal carotid artery which leaks into the cavernous sinus

96
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What is B?

A

Optic canal

97
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What is F?

A

Inferior oblique

98
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What causes ptosis?

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Ptosis (droopy eyelids) that can be caused by either loss of the oculomotor nerve or sympathetics (Horner’s syndrome)

99
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Where is the aqueous humor produced?

a) in the choroid layer
b) between the iris and lens
c) between the lens and retina
d) between the cornea and iris
e) in the conjunctival sac

A

b) between the iris and lens

posterior chamber

100
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What is U?

A

Vitreous body

101
Q

What bones make up the medial wall of the orbit?

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Sphenoid bone, maxillary bone, ethmoidbone, lacrimal bone

102
Q

What is the limbus?

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The junction between cornea and sclera

It also provides stem cells for continual corneal epithelial cell renewal and keeps conjunctival epithelial cells from growing over the cornea

103
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Which muscles depress the pupils?

A

Inferior rectus, superior oblique

104
Q

What is a coloboma?

A

A conditions with a persistence of the ventral cleft in the optic cup that prevents as a ventral defect in the iris (keyhole iris)

105
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What does the trochlear nerve (IV) due for the eye?

A

Innervates the superior oblique muscle with somatomotor fibers

106
Q

What is B?

A

Superior rectus

107
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What muscle is being tested when a patient is asked to move their pupil out, then down?

a) inferior rectus
b) inferior oblique
c) lateral rectus
d) superior rectus
e) superior oblique

A

a) inferior rectus

in the abducted position, depression is the only action of this muscle in the abducted position

108
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What are the layers of the eye (outer to inner)?

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Sclera (thick, tough) –> choroid (thin, vascular) –> pigmented retina (prevents light from reflecting) –> visual retina (layer for vision)

109
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What is the function of the medial rectus?

A

Adducts pupil (looks inward)

110
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What is D?

A

Lateral rectus

111
Q

What results from a rise in CSF pressure in the subarachnoid space?

A

Compression of the optic nerve that impairs vision

112
Q

What is H?

A

Optic nerve

113
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A pinpoint pupil might indicate damage to which of the following?

a) oculmotor nerve
b) ciliary body
c) sympathetic trunk
d) superior tarsus muscle
e) ciliary ganglion

A

c) sympathetic trunk

radially-oriented smooth muscle dilator in the iris is supplied by sympathetic neurons

114
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What soft tissue is related to the infraorbital foramen?

A

Infraorbital nerve (V2 branch of trigeminal)

115
Q

What bones make up the orbital floor?

A

Zygomatic bone, maxillary bone, palatine bone

116
Q

What is O?

A

Orbital plate of the ethmoid bone

117
Q

What is the presentation of cranial nerve 3 palsy?

A

Ptosis secondary to levator muscle not functioning

Dilated pupil, eye down and out (all muscles innervated by CN 3)

118
Q

What is T?

A

Ciliary body

119
Q

What is A?

A

Frontal bone

120
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What is the function of the inferior rectus?

A

Adducts and depresses pupil (look down and in)

121
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What does the oculomotor (III) nerve do for the eye?

A

innervates all extra-ocular muscles except lateral rectus and superior oblique

contains somatic fibers and presynaptic parasymapthetic fibers for the ciliary ganglion

122
Q

What is M?

A

Rectus muscle

123
Q

What is the path of orbital arteries?

A

They are mostly from the ophthalmic branch of the internal carotid artery. It traverses the optic canal with the optic nerve. The central artery of the retina is an end artery.

124
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What is the central artery/vein of the retina?

A

The proximal portion of the hyaloid artery and vein that remains after birth when the rest has disappeared

125
Q

What is the head mesenchyme? What structures arise from it?

A

A primordial structure from the neural crest

Gives rise to choroid layer, sclera, cornea, and meninges on the optic nerve (also contributes to iris, ciliary body, lacrimal gland stroma)

126
Q

What bones make up the orbital roof?

A

Frontal bone, sphenoid bone

127
Q

What is P?

A

Greater wing of sphenoid

128
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What is L?

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Sclera

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