Common Conditions Involving the Lids

Question 1

The upper lid is slow to react as the eye looks down exposing the sclera between the lid margin and iris.

Answer 1

Lid (sag) retraction

Question 2

Lid (lag) retraction suggests what?

Answer 2

Hyperthyroidism (early exophthalmos)

Question 3

If lid (lag) retraction is due to a tumor what C.N. is involved?

Answer 3

C.N. 7

Question 4

Upper lid droops compared to the other eye. Called?

Answer 4

Lid (sag) ptosis

Question 5

Is lid (sag) ptosis is congenital or acquired?

Answer 5

Could be either.

Question 6

Is lid (sag) ptosis is weakness of what muscle? Or it is paresis of a branch of which C.N.?

Answer 6

Levator palpebrae superioris

III

Question 7

Inflammation of the eyelash follicles and Meibomian glands.

Answer 7

Blephaitis

Question 8

Blephaitis is inflammation of what?

Answer 8

Eyelash follicles and Meibomian glands

Question 9

Blephaitis results in what?

Answer 9

Red, swollen, crusty lid margins

Question 10

Blephaitis may be associated with what?

Answer 10

Allergies, seborrheic dermatitis, and psoriasis

Question 11

A bacterial infection of a gland in an eyelash follicle causing a well-circumcised red, swollen pustule.

Answer 11

Sty(e)

Question 12

Another name for a sty is?

Answer 12

hordeolum

Question 13

A sty is what kind of bump?

Answer 13

pustue

Question 14

A hordeolum affects what?

Answer 14

Gland in an eyelash follicle

Question 15

A sty(e) is what kind of infection?

Answer 15

bacterial

Question 16

A hard painless posture on the eyelid due to an obstruction of a Meibomian (oil) gland.

Answer 16

chalazion

Question 17

A chalazion is like what elsewhere on the body?

Answer 17

Sebaceous cyst

Question 18

Is the chalazion painful?

Answer 18

no

Question 19

The chalazion obstructs what kind of gland?

Answer 19

meibomian

Question 20

The loss of the orbicularis muscle tone with aging causing the lower lid to turn out.

Answer 20

ectropion

Question 21

Ectropion interferes with what?

Answer 21

Proper tear drainage

Question 22

Ectropion may result in what?

Answer 22

C.N. 7 palsy

Question 23

Ectropion is loss of which muscle tone?

Answer 23

Orbicularis oris

Question 24

An inversion of the lower lid due to scar tissue formation on the inner surface of the lid.

Answer 24

Entropion

Question 25

What results from entropion?

Answer 25

Eyelashes then irritate the conjunctiva and cornea

Question 26

Entropion is due to what?

Answer 26

Scar tissue formation

Question 27

Inflammation of the tear sac secondary to chronic obstruction or narrowing of the nasolacrimal duct.

Answer 27

dacryocystitis

Question 28

Dacryocystitis usually occurs in which population?

Answer 28

infants

Question 29

What is the narrowing of the nasolacrimal duct called?

Answer 29

dacryostenosis

Question 30

What visual signs happen with dacryocystitis?

Answer 30

Painful swollen nodule develops between the nose and eye with accompanying tearing and discharge.

Question 31

Is dacryocystitis painful?

Answer 31

yes

Question 32

Dacryocystitis is secondary to what?

Answer 32

Chronic obstruction or narrowing of the nasolacrimal duct. (dacryostenosis)

Question 33

Dacryocystitis is inflammation of what?

Answer 33

The tear sac