Chapter Sixteen Flashcards
(58 cards)
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Senses
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General sensations perceived by the body include touch , pressure, pain, and temperature
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Audi/o
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Hearing
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Blephar/o
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Eyelid
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Dacry/o
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Tear lacrimal apparatus
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Ex/o
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Outside
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Mastoid/o
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Mastoid process
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Myring/o
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Tympanic membrane
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Ot/o
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Ear
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Phac/o
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Lens
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Presby/o
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Old age
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Salping/o
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Tubes
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Scler/o
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Hardening , sclera
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Scot/o
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Darkness
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Vitr/o
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Vitreous body of the eye
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Acusia/cusis
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Hearing
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Opia/opsia
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Vision
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Tropia
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Turning
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Exo
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Outward
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Hyper
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Excessive
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Achromatopsia
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Severe congenital deficiency in color perception
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Nyctalopia
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Night blindness
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Exophthalmos
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Protrusion of one of both eyeballs from the sockets commonly associated with hyperthyroidism
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Amblyopia
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Lazy eye syndrome
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Tinnitus
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Perceived ringing sound in the ears
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Sensitivity to light
Unusual intolerance to light
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Epiphora
An abnormal overflow of tears
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Eye
Globe shaped organ composed of three distinctive tunics or layers
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Fibrous tunic
Outermost layer of eyeball, protective clay for sensitive structures beneath and it includes camera ,cornea ,and conjunctiva
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Vascular runic
Middle layer of eyeball also known as Uber that consists of choroid , iris , and ciliary body
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Choroid
Provides blood supply for entire eye
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Iris
Colored contractile membrane perforated center called the pupil
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Ciliary body
Allows eye to focus in image
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Sensory tunic
Delicate double layered retina
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Adnexa
Involves all supporting structures of eye globe
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Cataracts
Opacities that form on the lens and impair vision
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Glaucoma
Increased intraocular pressure caused by the failure of the aqueous humor to drain from the eye through a tiny duct called the canal of schlemm
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Strabismus
One eye is misaligned with the other
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Macular degeneration
Deterioration of the macula
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Ear
Sense receptor for hearing and equilibrium
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Hearing is a function of the
Cochlea
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Otitis media
Information of middle ear
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Otosclerosis
Abnormal hardening of bones of middle ear that causes hearing loss
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Accommodation
Process of altering the shape of the lens to enable light to focus on the retina
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Retina
Layer of the eye containing rods and cones
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Cerumen
Wavy secrryin produces by glands in ear canal
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Canthus
Inner edge of the eye
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Canal of schlemm
Drains aqueous humor
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Cornea
Doesn’t have capillaries
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Semicircular canal
Sense of balance maintained in
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Papilledema
Condition of swelling and hyper is of optic disc
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Macular degeneration
Condition that involves leakage of blood and other fluid from intraocular cells that destroys vision cells
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Blepharitis
Inflammation of eyelid
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Retinobblastoma
Disorder of the nepotistic intraocular disease primarily found in children
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Chalazion
Small hard tumor developing in the eyelid similar to a sebaceous cyst
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Achromatopsia
Severe congenital deficiency in color perception
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Exopyhthalmos
Protrusion of one or both eyelids from sockets
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Medical term for stye
Hordeolum
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Presbyopia
Impairment of vision as result of old age
