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Quiz 2 B Flashcards

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Lines the upper lids and is clear, with many small blood vessels. It forms a deep recess and then fold back over the eye

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Palpebral conjunctiva

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Overlays the eyeball, with the light Scalera showing through. At the limbus, it emerges with the cornea.

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Bulbar Conjunctiva

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Window of the eye; permits entrance of light, which passes through the lens to the retina; well supplied with nerve endings which makes it responsive to pain and touch___

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Cornea

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Receptive layer of the eye and lightwaves are changed into nerve impulses. Surrounds soft, gelatinous ___ humor

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Retina

Vitreous

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Tears drain into the____, visible on the upper and lower lids at the inner cantus

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Puncta

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At the corner of the eye, the angle where the lids meet

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Canthus

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At the inner canthus, the___is a Small, fleshy mass containing sebaceous glands

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Caruncle

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The exposed part of the eye that is the transparent protective covering

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Conjunctiva

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Keeps the conjunctiva and cornea moist and lubricated

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Lacrimal apparatus

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The lacrimal gland which secretes tears is located in the___ __corner of the eye

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Upper outer

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Pupil size decreases, lens loses elasticity, and becomes hard and glasslike

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Aging

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With aging lacrimal gland ___causes decreased tear production and a feeling of dryness and burning

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Involutes

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____Protein to debris. Spot seen and front eyes; common among clients with myopia or over 40 years of age. Due to___

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Floaters after\spots.

Aging

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Halos around lights occur with acute

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Narrow-angle glaucoma

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___Blind spot surrounded by an area of normal or decreased peripheral vision, occurs with glaucoma, and or optic nerve disorders.

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Scotoma

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The inability to tolerate light (some common eye diseases cause no pain. e.g. Cataract, glaucoma)___

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Photophobia

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16
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A deviation in the axis of the eye

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Strabismus

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The perception of two images of a single object

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Diplopia

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Increased intraocular pressure

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Cataract

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A shadow or diminished vision and one quadrant or one half of visual field
Acute onset of floaters (shade or cobwebs)

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Retinal detachment

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The most common and accurate measurement of visual acuity with lines that are arranged and decreasing size

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Snellen chart

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Aging change: lens loses ability to adjust for vision changes to look closely-decreased ability to read

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Presbyopia

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Visual function reflects: person looks at far object and then near object and eyes converge in constrict

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Accommodation

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Clouding of Crystaline lenses or and is envelope. Lens yellows and loses it’s ability to focus. Starts developed by 40

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Cataract

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24
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Deterioration of central area of retina

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macular degeneration

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25
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Damage to optic nerve from increased intraocular pressure

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Glaucoma

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Eyebrows, eyelids and Plashes, eyeballs, conjunctiva and Scalera, lachrymal apparatus, Gen. observation; these are all which type of inspection___

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External ocular structures

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Cornea, lens, Iris, pupil
C-L-I-P
What type of inspection

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Anterior eyeball structures

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Size and shape, pupillary light reflex, accommodation are examinations of what structure?

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Iris and pupil

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29
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Snellen eye chart and Jager test for near vision test for what?

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Central vision acuity

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30
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Corneal light reflex, cover test, diagnostic position test. These test what?

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Extraocular muscle function

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Normal visual reflex of pupil when light shines on it, what will happen to the pupil?

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Constrict

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Test visual fields for gross peripheral vision.

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Confrontation test

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Refers to redish-orange reflection from the retina when observed from and ophthalmoscope

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Read reflex

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Should be round two oval with sharp, well-defined borders; normally creamy, yellow-orange to pink and approximately 1.5 mm wide

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Optic disc

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Darker area, 01 disk diameter and size, located to temporal side of optic disc. Damage can result in loss of central vision

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Macula

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36
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False appearance of cross eyes

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Pseudostrabismus

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37
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Turning inward of eye

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Esotropia

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38
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Turning outward of eye

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Exotropia

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White or gray, opaque ring and corneal margin (preferable corneal opacity), or white ring in front of for free of iris. DOES NOT MEAN PERSON HAS CATARACT PROBLEMS

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Arcus Senilis

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Drooping Eye (can affect persons ability to seeing due to the droop)

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Ptosis

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Puffy eyes or swelling around the eyes; appearance of swelling in tissue around eyes

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Periorbital edema

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Glands and ducts that served to lubricate the eye

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Lacrimal apparatus

43
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Located in the upper outer corner of the orbital cavity just above the eye; produces tears

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Lacrimal gland

44
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Dense protective white covering that physically supports internal structure of the Eye

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Sclera

45
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Permits entrance a light, which passes through the lens to the retinal

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Cornea

46
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Circular disk of muscle containing pigment that determines I color

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Iris

47
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Central aperture of the iris; controls the amount of light entering the eye and adjust for near vision and Dilates when far vision is needed

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Pupil

48
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Regulates black-and-white vision

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Cones

49
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Function and Brightlight; sensitive to color

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Cones

50
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Nerve fibers from the nasal quadrant of each retina (from both temporal visual fields) cross over to the opposite side

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Optic chiasma

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Causes pupils immediately to constrict when exposed to Brightlight; can be seen as direct reflex, in which constriction occurs in eye expose light, or as indirect\consensual reflex, in which exposure to lay in one eye result in constriction of the pupil in the opposite Eye

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Pupillary light reflex

52
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Excessive tearing

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Epiphora

53
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COLDSPA

Should be asked

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Character, onset, location, duration, severity, pattern, associated factor\how it affects client

54
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Pinpoint pupils; characterized by constricted and fixed pupils-. Possibly a result of narcotic drugs or brain-damaged

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Miosis

55
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Dilated and fixed pupils; typically resulting from central nervous system injury, circulatory collapse, or anesthesia

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Mydriasis

56
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Mydriatic drugs do what

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Dilate pupils

57
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Miotic drugs do what

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Constricted pupils

Hint: miotiC= Constriction

58
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20/50 What does that represent

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20-Distance in feet from the chart (What client sees)

50-What a normal person sees it 50 feet

59
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Convergence of the eyes

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Accommodate

60
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What is normal during the accommodation test

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Eyes converge as object moves towards that nose

61
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What occurs during the confrontation test

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Both client and examiner see examine his finger at the same time

62
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OD

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Right Eye

63
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OS

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Left Eye

64
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OD 20\40, OS 20\30 what does this indicate

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Vision worse in the right eye

65
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What does the diagnostic position test

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6 positions

Normal response is parallel tracking of the object

66
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What do blurred margin of the optic disc indicate

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Papilledemia or swelling

67
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Assessing parallel alignment of client eyes occurs with what test

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Corneal light reflex

68
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This test is performed when there is a crushing injury of the eye

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Six cardinal position of gaze test

69
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Hyperemia of the optic disc due to an accumulation of blood

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Papilledema

70
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A cover test assesses what

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Proper alignment of that

71
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In a consensual I test, what position should alight be focused

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Obliquely into one eye while examining the reflex of the other

72
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During and ophthalmic examination light colored spots (exudate) are seen on the retinal background. What is this an indication of

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Hypertension or diabetes

73
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With Scotma constant blind spots may indicate what

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Possible retinal detachment

74
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A young child appears to have an inward turning of the eye. What does should be performed to determine if this is normal

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Corneal light reflex

75
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Staphylococcus eyelid infection

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Blepharitis

76
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Stye (infection of lower eyelashes)

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Hordeolum

77
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Infection of meibomain gland and lower lid

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Chalazion

78
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Part of the eye that covers the pupil and does not have vessels

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Cornea

79
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Farsightedness (difficult seeing nearobjects then distant objects)

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Hyperopia

80
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Condition where eyes are not properly aligned with each other

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Strabismus

81
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Preferred test for external ocular movement

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Positions test\diagnostic test

82
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Impaired far vision

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Myopia

83
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Protrusion of the eyeballs accompanied by retracted eyelid margins

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Exophthalmos

84
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Pupils are normally which size in millimeters

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3-5 mm

85
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Nurse is conducting a red reflex test in looking for redish-orange reflection from the eyes retina. The retina does not appear normal, round with regular borders. What is the most likely cause

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Cataract

86
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People that see near by objects with clarity while distant objects appear blurred

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Myopia

87
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Can be thought of as the film in a camera

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Retina

88
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Nurse cannot visualize the clients red reflex via a funduscopic examination. What might this indicate

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Cataracts

89
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First question the nurse should ask the patient is

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Have you had visions changes

90
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Corneal reflex is mediated by which cranial nerves

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V & VII

91
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Normal accommodation test

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Constriction and convergence

92
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To assess tear ducts you must

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Gently palpate them at the inner canthus

93
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Checking visual acuity of a patient in vision changes due to the length of the globe Of the eye being longer than normal are present so that the images not focus directly on the retina. Condition is called

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Myopia

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A person with crossed eyes would it have what kind of test performed

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Cover test

95
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Inverted lower lid which causes eyelashes to brush up against the conjunctiva and cornea

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Entropian

96
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Inverted lower eyelid that result in exposure and drying of the cornea. Interferes with tear drainage

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Ectropian

97
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Shows and opaque gray surrounded by black background as it forms the center of the lens nucleus. Looks like a black center against a red reflex

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Nuclear cataract-Central gray opacity

98
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Shows as asymmetric, radio, white specs with black Center. Through up Famel scope, black spokes are evident against the red reflex. This forms in outer cortex of lens, progressing faster than the other type

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Cortical cataract-star shaped opacity

99
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Two different size pupils

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Anisocoria

100
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Older adults have an increased risk of falls and fractures due to ___visual acuity of___ or greater

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Distance.

20\25

101
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Cornea may look cloudy with age. This is a gray-white arc or circle around the limbus. Due to deposits of lipid material. No effect and vision

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Arcus senilis

102
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____Inflammation of the lachrymal sac. Infection and blockage of sack and duct. Pain, warmth, redness, and swelling occur below the inner ____the nose. Tearing is present. Pressure on sack yields purulent discharge from ___

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Dacryocystitis.
Canthus
Puncta

103
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___is the gradual loss of your eyes’ ability to focus actively on nearby objects. It’s a natural, often annoying part of aging that usually becomes noticeable in your early to mid-40s and continues to worsen until around age 65.

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Presbyopia

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