Vocab

Question 1

Accommodation

Answer 1

The ability of the eye to adjust focus for varying distances

Question 2

Amblyopia

Answer 2

Loss of vision without any apparent disease of the eye

Question 3

Anisometropia

Answer 3

A refractive error of one eye significantly different from that of the other

Question 4

Antimetropia

Answer 4

Sub-classification of anisometropia, rare refractive condition one eye is music and the other is hyperbolic. May lead to vertical imbalance

Question 5

Diplopia

Answer 5

Seeing one object as two due to uneven tracking of the eye. Double vision

Question 6

Presbyopia

Answer 6

Gradual lessening if the power of accommodation due to physical gov change that becomes noticeable about the age of 35

Question 7

Phoria

Answer 7

Tendency for the eye to deviate from its visual axis or the normal

Question 8

Tropia

Answer 8

Obvious deviation from the normal of the axis of the eye

Question 9

Esophoria

Answer 9

Tend y for one eye to deviate off the visual axis toward the other eye

Question 10

Esotropia

Answer 10

Actual deviation of one eye toward the visual axis of the other eye. Cross eyed

Question 11

Exophoria

Answer 11

Tendency for one eye to deviate off the visual axis away from the other eye

Question 12

Exotropia

Answer 12

Actual deviation of one eye away from the visual axis of the other eye. Wall eyed

Question 13

Plus lenses

Answer 13

Magnify images 
Prisms are base to base 
Thicker center 
Converges light bringing images together
Against motion. Images moves left as lens moves right

Question 14

Minus lenses

Answer 14

Minify images 
Prisms are apex to apex
Thicker edges 
Diverges light.  Spreads apart
With motion. Images moves left as lens moves left

Question 15

Iris

Answer 15

Color part of the eye. Controls the amount of light entering the use through the pupil

Question 16

Sclera

Answer 16

The white part of the eye protective layer of the eye

Question 17

Retina

Answer 17

Inner lining of most of the back chamber of the eye which contains the layers of the nerve cells giving the eye sensitivity to light