Ch15-Special Senses
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- ACCOMODATION
- ADJUSTMENT OF THE EYE FOR VARIOUS DISTANCES SO THE IMAGE FALLS ON THE RETINA
- ACUITY
- CLEARNESS OR SHARPNESS OF A SENSORY FUNCTION
- ADNEXA
- TISSUES OR STRUCTURES ADJACENT TO OR NEAR A RELATED STRUCTURE (ACCESSORY STRUCTURES)
- ARTICULATE
- JOIN OR LOOSELY CONNECT TOGETHER ALLOWING MOTION
- GUSTATION
- SENSE AND ACT OF TASTING
- HUMOR
- FLUID OR SEMIFLUID
- LABYRINTH
- SERIES OF INTRICATE COMMUNICATING PASSAGES
- OLFACTION
- THE ACT AND SENSE OF SMELLING
- OSSICLE
- ANY SMALL BONE, ESPECIALLY ONE OF THE THREE BONES OF THE EAR
- PHOTOPIGMENT
- LIGHT SENSITIVE PIGMENT IN THE RETINAL RODS AND CONES (VISUAL PIGMENT)
- SLIT LAMP
- MICROSCOPE W/LIGHT THAT ALLOWS MAGNIFICATION OF EYE STRUCTURES
- TUNIC
- A LAYER OR COAT OF TISSUE (MEMBRANE LAYER)
- AMBLY/O
- DULL, DIM
- AQUE/O
- WATER
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BLEPHAR/O
PALPEBR/O - EYELID
- CHOROID/O
- CHOROID (PROVIDES BLOOD SUPPLY TO THE EYE)
-
CORE/O
PUPILL/O - PUPIL
- CONJUNCTIV/O
- CONJUNCTIVA
-
CORNE/O
KERAT/O - CORNEA
- CYCL/O
- CILIARY BODY OF EYE; CIRCULAR, CYCLE
-
DACRY/O
LACRIM/O - TEAR; LACRIMAL APPARATUS (DUCT, SAC, GLAND)
- DACRYOCYST/O
- LACRIMAL SAC
- GLAUC/O
- GRAY
- GONI/O
- ANGLE
-
IRID/O
IR/O - IRIS
-
OCUL/O
OPHTHALM/O - EYE
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OPT/O
OPTIC/O - EYE, VISION
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PHAC/O
PHAK/O - LENS
- PAPILL/O
- OPTIC DISK
- PHOT/O
- LIGHT
- PRESBY/O
- OLD AGE
- RETIN/O
- RETINA
- SCLER/O
- SCLERA (WHITE OF THE EYE); HARDENING
- SCOT/O
- DARKNESS
- VITR/O
- VITREOUS BODY (OF EYE)
- AUDI/O
- HEARING
-
AUR/O
OT/O - EAR
- LABYRINTH/O
- LABYRINTH (INNER EAR)
- MASTOID/O
- MASTOID PROCESS
- SALPING/O
- EUSTACHIAN TUBES OR FALLOPIAN TUBES
- STAPED/O
- STAPES (3RD BONE OF MIDDLE EAR OR STIRRUPS)
-
MYRING/O
TYMPAN/O - TYMPANIC MEMBRANE (EARDRUM) FOUND IN MIDDLE EAR
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-OPIA
-OPSIA - VISION
- -TROPIA
- TURNING
-
-ACUSI
-CUSIS - HEARING
- EXO-
- OUTSIDE, OUTWARD
- HYPER-
- EXCESSIVE, ABOVE NORMAL
- ACHROMATOPSIA
- COMPLETE COLOR BLINDNESS
- CHALAZION
- TUMOR ON THE EYELID
- CONJUNCTIVITIS
- INFLAMMATION OF THE CONJUNCTIVA (PINK EYE)
- CONVERGENCE
- MEDIAL MOVEMENT OF BOTH EYES SO THEY ARE DIRECTED AT THE OBJECT BEING VIEWED
- DIOPTER
- MEASUREMENT OF REFRACTIVE ERROR IN EYES
- ECTROPION
- LOWER EYELID TURNS OUTWARD
- EMMETROPIA
- NORMAL CONDITION IN REFRACTION IN WHICH WHEN EYE IS AT REST, PARALLEL RAYS FOCUS EXACTLY OF THE RETINA
- ENTROPION
- LOWER EYELID TURNS INWARD
- EPIPHORA
- ABNORMAL OVERFLOW OF TEARS
- EXOPHTHALMOS
- PROTUSION OF ONE OR BOTH EYEBALLS
- HORDEOLUM
- STY
- METAMORPHOPSIA
- VISUAL DISTORTION OF OBJECTS
- NYCTALOPIA
- INABILITY TO SEE WELL IN DIM LIGHT
- NYSTAGMUS
- INVOLUNTARY JERKY EYE MOVEMENTS
- PAPILLEDEMA
- SWELLING OF OPTICAL DISK
- PHOTOPOBIA
- SENSITIVITY TO LIGHT
- PRESBYOPIA
- DECREASED ABILITY TO FOCUS AT CLOSE RANGE-DUE TO THE AGING PROCESS
- RETINOPATHY
- DISORDER OF THE RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS
- TRACHOMA
- CHRONIC, CONTAGIOUS FORM OF CONJUNCTIVITIS (PINK EYE)
- VISUAL FIELD
- AREA THAT OBJECTS ARE SEEN IN WHEN EYES ARE IN FIXED POSITION
- ANACUSIS
- DEAFNESS
- CONDUCTION IMPAIRMENT
- BLOCKING OF SOUND WAVES (EXTERNAL-MIDDLE EAR)
- LABYRINTHITIS
- INFLAMMATION OF INNER EAR
- MENIERE DISEASE
- DISORDER OF LABYRINTH THAT LEADS TO PROGRESSIVE HEARING LOSS
- OTITIS EXTERNA
- INFECTION OF THE EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL
- PRESBYACUSIS
- HEARING IMPAIRMENT DUE TO OLD AGE
- PRESSURE EQUALIZING (PE) TUBES
- TUBES INSERTED THROUGH THE TYMPANIC MEMBRANE COMMONLY TO TREAT CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA
- TINNITUS
- RINGING IN THE EARS
- VERTIGO
- FEELING OF SPINNING OR DIZZINESS
- AUDIOMETRY
- MEASURMENT OF HEARING ACUITY
- CALORIC STIMULATION TEST
- USED TO ACCESS VESTIBULAR FUNCTION IN PTS WHO COMPLAIN OF DIZZINESS (USES DIFFERENT TEMP WATER)
- ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY
- A METHOD OF RECORDING THE ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY OF THE EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLES
- OPHTHALMODYNAMOMETRY
- MEASURES BLOOD PRESSURE IN THE RETINAL VESSELS
- TONOMETRY
- USED TO DETECT GLAUCOMA - MEASURES EYEBALLS RESISTANCE TO INDENTATION WHEN PRESSURE IS APPLIED
- VISUAL ACUITY TEST
- PART OF EYE EXAM THAT DETERMINES SMALLEST LETTER THAT CAN BE READ ON EYE CHART
- GONIOSCOPY
- EXAMS THE ANGLE OF THE ANTERIOR CHAMBER OF THE EYE (USED TO DIAGNOSE AND MANAGE GLAUCOMA)
- OPHTHALMOSCOPY
- VISUAL EXAM OF THE INTERIOR OF THE EYE
- OTOSCOPY
- VISUAL EXAM OF THE EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL AND EARDRUM (TYMPANIC MEMBRANE)
- RETINOSCOPY
- EVALUATION OF REFRACTIVE ERRORS OF THE EYE BY PROJECTING LIGHT INTO THE EYES AND DETERMINING MOVEMENT OF REFLECTED LIGHT RAYS
- DACRYOCYSTOGRAPHY
- RADIOLOGIC EXAM OF THE TEAR GLANDS AND DUCTS
- FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY
- ASSESSES BLOOD VESSELS AND THEIR LEAKAGE IN AND BENEATH THE RETINA (COLORED DYE IS INJECTED)
- ORTHOPTIC TRAINING
- EXCERCISES INTENDED TO IMPROVE EYE MOVEMENTS
- BLEPHARECTOMY
- EXCISION OF LESION ON EYELID
- BLEPHAROPLASTY
- SURGERY THAT REMOVES BAGS ABOVE AND BELOW THE EYE
- COCHLEAR IMPLANT
- ARTIFICIAL HEARING DEVICE-ELECTRICALLY STIMULATES NERVES INSIDE THE INNER EAR
- CYCLODIALYSIS
- FORMS AN OPENING BETWEEN ANTERIOR CHAMBER AND SUPRACHOROIDAL SPACE ALLOWING AQUEOUS HUMOR TO DRAIN (TREATS GLAUCOMA)
- ENUCLEATION
- REMOVAL OF EYEBALL FROM ORBIT
- EVISCERATION
- REMOVAL OF CONTENTS OF EYE WHILE LEAVING SCLERA AND CORNEA
- KERATOTOMY
- INCISION OF THE CORNEA
- MASTOID ANTROTOMY
- SURGICAL OPENING OF A CAVITY WITHIN THE MASTOID PROCESS
- OTOPLASTY
- CORRECTIVE SURGERY TO FIX DEFORMED, TOO LARGE, OR TOO SMALL EARS
- PHACOEMULSIFICATION
- CATARACT TREATMENT-ULTRASONIC WAVES DISINTEGRATE THE CLOUDY LENS
- SCLEROSTOMY
- SURGICAL FORMATION OF AN OPENING IN THE SCLERA
- TYMPANOPLASTY
- RECONSTRUCTION OF THE EARDRUM
- OPHTHALMIC ANTIBIOTICS
- INHIBIT THE GROWTH OF MICROORGANISMS THAT INFECT THE EYE
- MYDRIATICS
- DILATE THE PUPIL
- OPHTHALMIC DECONGESTANTS
- CONSTRICTS THE SMALL ARTERIOLES OF THE EYE DECREASING REDNESS (VISINE)
- OPHTHALMIC MOISTURIZERS
- SOOTH DRY EYES
- ANTIEMETICS
- TREAT NAUSEA, VOMITING, DIZZINESS AND VERTIGO
- OTIC ANALGESICS
- RELIEVES PAIN AND INFLAMMATION DUE TO EAR INFECTIONS, ETC...
- WAX EMULSIFIERS
- LOOSEN IMPACTED CERUMEN (EAR WAX)
- ST
- ESOTROPIA - MARKED TURNING INWARD OF THE EYES (CROSS EYED)
- XT
- EXOTROPIA - ABNORMAL TURNING OUTWARD OF ONE OR BOTH EYES