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Visual System ppt 25 Flashcards

1
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What is cataract?

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Clouding of the lease. most common cause of blindness world wide.

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What are the type of Cataracts?

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Age-Related
Congenital
Secondary
Traumatic

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What is glaucoma

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high interocular pressure as a result of a buildup of aqueous humor within the anterior cavity.

Most common cause of blindness in the US

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Normal Tension Glaucoma

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here is damage to the optic nerve with a corresponding loss of vision, even though intraocular pressure is normal

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The image that the retina receives is

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inverted and upside-down

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What is accommodation?

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the process that increases the refractory power of the lens

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What controls accommodation?

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Ciliary muscle contraction controlled byt parasympathetic fibers

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What is pupil constriction?

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Lense Bulges for close vision. Parasympathetic input contracts the ciliary muscle loosening the ciliary zone allowing the lens to bulge

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9
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What is Astigmatism?

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Occurs what the shape of the cornea is oblong. Prevents light to come into a single focal point.

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What lens is used in astigmatism?

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Cylindrical lense

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What is Presbyopia?

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Lose of lens elasticity with aging. Losing its ability to curve to focus on objects that are close

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What is Hypermetropia?(Hyperopia)

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Far Sightedness
the eyeball is too small of the lens is too weak.
focus is BEHIND the retina.

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What kind of lens is used for Hypermetropia?

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CONVEX lens

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What is Myopia?

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Near-sightedness.
the eye is too long or increased lens power.
focus is INFRONT of the retina

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What kind of lens is used for myopia?

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CONCAVE

MY big CAVE ins NEAR

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16
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Where is the Retina?

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3rd and inner layer of the eyeball.
lines the posterior 3/4 of the eyeball

consists of pigmented layer and a neural layer.

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What is the optic disk?

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the optic nerve exits the eyeball. Bundled together with the optic nerve, the central retinal artery, and the central retinal vein.

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What is the macula lutea?

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the exact center of the posterior portion of the retina, at the visual axis of the eye.

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What is the Fovea Centralis?

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a small depression in the center of the macula lutea, contains only cones.

20
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What are the layers of the retina?

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  • Photoreceptor layer
  • Bipolar cell layer
  • Ganglion cell layer
21
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What are the two types of cells present in the bipolar layer?

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horizontal cells and amacrine cells

22
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What is the blind spot?

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The optic disc because it contains no rods or cones

23
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What are characteristics of cons?

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Low sensitivity to light. 
Day vision
Mediate color vision
High concentration in Fovea
Less numbers then rods
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What are characteristics of rods?

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High sensitivity to light. 
Night vision
Saturate in day light. 
Achromatic
Absent in Fovea
More numbers then cones 20:1
25
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Mechanism of photoreceptor

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  1. Light hits retina. Photoisomerization. 11cis Retinal-> all trans. Makes Metrahodopsin II.
  2. Metrahodopsin II activates G PROTEIN. gmp to 5gmp. decrease cGMP.

3/4. In dark increase in cyclic GMP levels, Na + inward current. Depolarization.
in light, decrease GMP closes Na channels. Hyperpolarization

  1. Hyperpolarization of the photoreceptor membrane decreases the release of glutamate
  2. Ionotropic receptor- inhibitory
    metabotropic receptor- excitatory
26
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Why is Vit A important for vision?

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Regeneration of 11­cis retinal requires vitamin A, and defciency of vitamin A causes NIGHT BLINDNESS

27
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Bipolar cells response to glutamate

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  • Theoffbipolar cells are depolarized by glutamate.

- Theonbipolar cells arehyperpolarizedby glutamate.

28
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What is visual acuity?

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he ability of the eye to identify two closely placed objects at two distinct point

29
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Optic nerve damage will cause?

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Blindness in the affected eye. Monocular Blindness.

30
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Optic Chiasma damage will cause?

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Lose of temporal visual feels on both sides.

Bitemporal Heteronymous Hemianopia

31
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Damage to the upper or right geniculocalcarine tract

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Left homonymous inferior quadratic anopsia. (parietal or occipital tumor)
lower left quadrant

32
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Light Adaptation

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Visual system adjusts in seconds to the brighter environment by decreasing its sensitivity

33
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Dark Adaptaion

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sensitivity increases slowly over many minutes.

Maximum dark adaptation occurs in 20 mins

34
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Strabismic Ambyopia

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visual axis of the two eyes are not parallel this is called strabismus

35
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Dichromacy Color Blindness

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blue cone (tritanopia) is rare.

red cone (protanopia)

green cone (deuteranopia)

36
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Retinitis Pigmentosa

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visual disorder encompasses a diverse group of hereditary visual defects characterized by a gradual loss of vision caused by degeneration of photoreceptors. So far, mutations of about 30 genes have been linked

37
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Argyll Robertson Pupil.

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Accommodation- YES

Light reflexes- NO

38
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Adie’s Pupil

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Sluggish constriction of the pupil to light.
Dilation of the pupil is delayed.

Pathological changes in the ciliary ganglion.

39
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Marcus-Gunn Pupil

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Nerve not tract

lesion in the afferent limb of the pupillary light reflex (e.g., Retrobulbar neuritis of the optic nerve seen in multiple sclerosis).
● Can be diagnosed by the swinging flashlight test.


40
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Weber Syndrom

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downward and outward, drooping of the eyelid, and a dilated and nonresponsive pupil on the ipsilateral side, accompanied by contralateral upper motor neuron paralysis

41
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Parinaud Syndrome

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Lesions in the pretectal area.

upward gaze, a large pupil,

42
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What is a light reflex?

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light is focused on one eye, the pupils of both eyes constrict

stimulated eye: direct light reflex
other eye: consensual

43
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What is the accommodation reflex?

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pupils of both eyes constrict on looking at a near object

44
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When is direct light response impaired?

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lesions of:

  • ipsilateral optic nerve
  • the pretectal area
  • ipsilateral parasympathetics traveling in CN III
  • pupillary constrictor muscle of the iris.
45
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When is consensual light response impaired?

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lesions of:

  • contralateral optic nerve
  • pretectal area
  • ipsilateral parasympathetics traveling in CN III
  • pupillary constrictor muscle.
46
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When is accommodation response impaired?

A

Lesions of:

  • ipsilateral optic nerve
  • ipsilateral parasympathetics traveling in CN III
  • pupillary constrictor muscle
  • bilateral lesions of the optic tracts to the visual cortex.

SPARED: pretectal area

47
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How is an afferent pupillary defect detected with swinging flashlight test? Marcus Gunn

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the flashlight is moved from the normal to the affected eye, and the affected pupildilatesin response to light

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