Ch. 13 hearing vision
Terms
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- ambly
- dull, dim
- aque
- water
- blephar
- eyelid
- conjuctiv
- conjunctiva
- core
- pupil
- corne
- cornea
- cycl
- ciliary muscle
- dacry
- tear, duct
- dipl
- double
- glauc
- gray
- ir
- iris
- irid
- iris
- kerat
- cornea
- lacrim
- tears
- ocul
- eyes
- ophthalm
- eye
- opt
- eye,vision
- optic
- eye
- papill
- optic disk
- phac
- lens
- phot
- light
- presby
- old age
- pupill
- pupil
- retin
- retina
- scler
- sclera
- uve
- vascular
- vitre
- glassy
- chalasis
- relaxation
- opia
- vision
- tropia
- to turn
- accomodation
- ability of eye to adjust to various dista
- convergence
- moving inward of the eyes to see and object close to the face
- ectropion
- eversion of eyelid
- emmetropia
- normal vision
- entropion
- inversion of eyelid
- estropia
- inward turning of eye
- exophthalmos
- abnorm. protrusion of the eyeball
- exotropia
- outward turning of eye
- nyctalopia
- difficulty seeing in the dim light
- optician
- specialist in grinding corrective lenses
- papilledema
- swelling of optic disk
- photophobia
- strong sensitivity to bright light
- presbyopia
- visual loss due to old age
- refraction
- eye exam. performed to determine and correct refractive errors
- refractive
- ability of eye to accurately focus the image that is hitting it
- achromatopsia
- cond. of color blindness
- amblyopia
- loss of vision not due to eye pathology
- astigmatism
- cond. which light rays are focused unevenly on the retina
- blepharochalasis
- upper eyelid increases in size due to loss of elasticity
- cataract
- damage to the lens causing it to become opaque or cloudy
- chalazion
- sm hard tumor or mass developing on the eyelids
- diabetic retinopathy
- small hemorrhages and edema in the they develop in the retina
- glaucoma
- increase in intraocular pressure may result in atrophy of the optic nerve and blindness
- hemianopia
- loss of vision in half the visual field
- hordeolum
- sty
- hyperopia
- see things in distance but has trouble reading at close range
- macular degeneration
- deterioration of the macular area in the retina of the eye
- monochromatism
- unable to perceive one color
- myopia
- see things up close but not in the distance
- nystagmus
- jerky-appering involuntary eye mvmt
- retinal detachment
- retina becomes separated from the choroid layer
- retinitis pigmentosa
- progressive disease of the eye that results in the retina becoming hard and pigmented and atrophying
- retinoblastoma
- malignant eye tumor that occurs in children
- strabismus
- eye musc. weakness resulting in the eye looking in different directions
- trachoma
- infectious disease of the conjunctiva and cornea caused by bacteria
- acous
- hearing
- audi
- hearing
- aur
- ear
- auricul
- ear
- cochle
- cochlea
- labyrinth
- labyrinth
- myring
- eardrum
- ot
- ear
- salping
- eustachian tube
- staped
- stapes
- tympan
- eardrum
- cusis
- hearing
- otia
- ear condition
- acoustic neuroma
- benign tumor of the 8th cranial nerve sheath
- anacusis
- total absence of hearing
- deafness
- inability to hear
- hearing impairment
- loss of hearing sufficient to interfere with a person's ability to communicate
- labyrinthitis
- inner ear infection
- Menieres
- abnormal cond w/in inner ear that leads to progrs. hearing loss
- otis externa
- external ear infection
- otis media
- commonly referred to as a mid ear infection
- otosclerosis
- loss of mobility of the stapes bone