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Med Term 2 (AC) > Week Seven: Seeing and Hearing > Flashcards

Week Seven: Seeing and Hearing Flashcards

1
Q

What are the combining forms for eye or sight?

A 
Opt.i 
Opt/o
optic/o
Ocul/o
Opthalm/o
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2
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What is the orbit?

A

Eye socket

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3
Q

What is palpebrae?

A

Eyelids

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4
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What is the combining form for eyelids?

A

blephar/o

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5
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What is the protective cilia of the eye called?

A

Eyelashes

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6
Q

What is the mucus membrane called that lines the eyes?

A

Conjunctiva

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7
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What is the lacrimal apparatus?

A

Tear production

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8
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Combining forms for lacrimal apparatus

A

Lacrim/o

Dacry/o

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9
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What is the sclera?

A

White of the eye

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10
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Combining form for sclera

A

Scler/o

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11
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What is the transparent anterior portion of the eye called?

A

Cornea

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12
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Combining forms for cornea

A

Corne/o (used more for anatomy)

Kerat/o (used more for diseases)

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13
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What is the middle layer of the eye called?

A

Choroid

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14
Q

What does the choroid include?

A

Blood vessels, iris, pupil, lens, and ciliary body

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15
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What is miosis?

A

Contraction of choroid

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16
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What is mydriasis?

A

Dilation of choroid

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17
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combining form for choroid

A

Choroid/o

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18
Q

What part of the eye gives animals “glowy eyes”

A

Tapetum lucidum

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19
Q

What is the inner layer of the eye called?

A

Retina

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20
Q

What is the function of the retina?

A

Receives images

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21
Q

Rods detect…

A

Light

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22
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Cones detect..

A

Color

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23
Q

Where are rods and cones located?

A

In the optic disk

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24
Q

Combining form for retina

A

Retin/o

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25
Q

______ segment contains aqueous humor

A

Anterior

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26
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_______ chamber contains vitreous humor

A

Vitreous

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27
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What is the jelly-like substance in the eye called?

A

Vitreous humor

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28
Q

Combining form for glassy

A

Vitre/o

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29
Q

What is the process of the eye focusing called?

A

Accommodation

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30
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What is the bending of light to help focus called?

A

Refraction

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31
Q

What is convergence?

A

Simutanious movement of eyes

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32
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What is acuity?

A

Sharpness

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33
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What is a fluorescein stain?

A

Stains cornea to show abrassions

34
Q

What is the instrument that is used to look into the eye?

A

Ophthalmoscope

35
Q

What is the palpebral reflex?

A

When you touch the corner of the eye

36
Q

What is the pupillary light reflex?

A

Dilation of both eyes

37
Q

What does the Schirmer tear test test?

A

How much tear production

38
Q

What is the glaucoma test called?

39
Q

What is anisocoria?

A

Unequal pupil size

40
Q

What is cloudiness of the eye called?

41
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What is conjunctivitis?

42
Q

What is corneal ulceration?

A

Depression on the cornea

43
Q

What is ectropion?

A

Eyelid turning out

44
Q

What is entropion?

A

Eyelid turning in

45
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What is excessive tear production called?

46
Q

What is glaucoma?

A

Group of disorders resulting from elevated eye pressure

47
Q

What is constant, involuntary movement of the eye called?

48
Q

What is proptosis?

A

When the eye pops out

49
Q

What is strabismus?

A

Crossed eyes

50
Q

What is a blepharoplasty?

A

Repair eye lids (ectropion and entropion)

51
Q

What is enucleation?

A

Removal of the eye

52
Q

What is the sensory organ that enables hearing and helps to maintain balance?

53
Q

Combining forms for ear

A

Audit/o
Audit.i
Ot/o

54
Q

Combining forms for sound or hearing

A

Acoust/o

Acous/o

55
Q

What part of the ear catches and then transmits sound waves?

56
Q

Combining form for pinna

57
Q

Combining form for external ear

A

Aur.i

Aur/o

58
Q

What is the tube that transmits sound from the pinna to the tympanic membrane called?

A

External auditory canal

59
Q

Where is cerumen secreted?

A

External auditory canal

60
Q

What is the tympanic membrane?

61
Q

What is the function of the eardrum?

A

Transmits sound waves to the ossicles

62
Q

Combining forms for eardrum?

A

Tympan/o

Myring/o

63
Q

What are the three auditory ossicles?

A

Malleus
Incus
Stapes

64
Q

What part of the ear equalizes air and middle ear pressure?

A

Eustachian tube

65
Q

Oval window?

66
Q

Round window?

67
Q

What is the osseous chamber that houses the middle ear?

A

Tympanic bulla

68
Q

The vestibule, semicircular canals, and cochlea are part of the _______ ear

69
Q

What is responsible (in the ear) for balance and equilibrium

70
Q

What are the three canals that regulate equilibrium called?

A

Semicircular canals

71
Q

What is the cochlea responsible for?

A

Organ of hearing

72
Q

Air conduction is caught by the ______ into external canal

73
Q

What is the instrument called that is used to look into the ear?

74
Q

What is an aural hematoma?

A

collection of blood in pinna

75
Q

What is otitis?

A

Inflammation of ear

76
Q

What is externa otits?

A

Inflammation of outer ear

77
Q

What is media otitis?

A

Inflammation of middle ear

78
Q

What is interna otitis?

A

Inflammation of internal ear

79
Q

What is vertigo?

A

Sense of dizziness

80
Q

What is ablation?

A

Removal of a part

Med Term 2 (AC) (10 decks)

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