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Week Seven: Seeing and Hearing Flashcards

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What are the combining forms for eye or sight?

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Opt.i 
Opt/o
optic/o
Ocul/o
Opthalm/o
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What is the orbit?

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Eye socket

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What is palpebrae?

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Eyelids

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What is the combining form for eyelids?

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blephar/o

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What is the protective cilia of the eye called?

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Eyelashes

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What is the mucus membrane called that lines the eyes?

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Conjunctiva

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What is the lacrimal apparatus?

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Tear production

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Combining forms for lacrimal apparatus

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Lacrim/o

Dacry/o

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What is the sclera?

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White of the eye

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Combining form for sclera

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Scler/o

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What is the transparent anterior portion of the eye called?

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Cornea

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Combining forms for cornea

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Corne/o (used more for anatomy)

Kerat/o (used more for diseases)

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What is the middle layer of the eye called?

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Choroid

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What does the choroid include?

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Blood vessels, iris, pupil, lens, and ciliary body

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What is miosis?

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Contraction of choroid

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What is mydriasis?

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Dilation of choroid

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combining form for choroid

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Choroid/o

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What part of the eye gives animals “glowy eyes”

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Tapetum lucidum

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What is the inner layer of the eye called?

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Retina

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What is the function of the retina?

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Receives images

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Rods detect…

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Light

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Cones detect..

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Color

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Where are rods and cones located?

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In the optic disk

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Combining form for retina

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Retin/o

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______ segment contains aqueous humor
Anterior
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_______ chamber contains vitreous humor
Vitreous
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What is the jelly-like substance in the eye called?
Vitreous humor
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Combining form for glassy
Vitre/o
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What is the process of the eye focusing called?
Accommodation
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What is the bending of light to help focus called?
Refraction
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What is convergence?
Simutanious movement of eyes
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What is acuity?
Sharpness
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What is a fluorescein stain?
Stains cornea to show abrassions
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What is the instrument that is used to look into the eye?
Ophthalmoscope
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What is the palpebral reflex?
When you touch the corner of the eye
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What is the pupillary light reflex?
Dilation of both eyes
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What does the Schirmer tear test test?
How much tear production
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What is the glaucoma test called?
Tonometry
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What is anisocoria?
Unequal pupil size
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What is cloudiness of the eye called?
Cataract
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What is conjunctivitis?
Pink eye
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What is corneal ulceration?
Depression on the cornea
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What is ectropion?
Eyelid turning out
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What is entropion?
Eyelid turning in
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What is excessive tear production called?
Epiphora
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What is glaucoma?
Group of disorders resulting from elevated eye pressure
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What is constant, involuntary movement of the eye called?
Nystagmus
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What is proptosis?
When the eye pops out
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What is strabismus?
Crossed eyes
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What is a blepharoplasty?
Repair eye lids (ectropion and entropion)
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What is enucleation?
Removal of the eye
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What is the sensory organ that enables hearing and helps to maintain balance?
Ear
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Combining forms for ear
Audit/o Audit.i Ot/o
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Combining forms for sound or hearing
Acoust/o | Acous/o
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What part of the ear catches and then transmits sound waves?
Pinna
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Combining form for pinna
Pinn.i
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Combining form for external ear
Aur.i | Aur/o
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What is the tube that transmits sound from the pinna to the tympanic membrane called?
External auditory canal
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Where is cerumen secreted?
External auditory canal
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What is the tympanic membrane?
Eardrum
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What is the function of the eardrum?
Transmits sound waves to the ossicles
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Combining forms for eardrum?
Tympan/o | Myring/o
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What are the three auditory ossicles?
Malleus Incus Stapes
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What part of the ear equalizes air and middle ear pressure?
Eustachian tube
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Oval window?
?
66
Round window?
?
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What is the osseous chamber that houses the middle ear?
Tympanic bulla
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The vestibule, semicircular canals, and cochlea are part of the _______ ear
Inner
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What is responsible (in the ear) for balance and equilibrium
Vestibule
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What are the three canals that regulate equilibrium called?
Semicircular canals
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What is the cochlea responsible for?
Organ of hearing
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Air conduction is caught by the ______ into external canal
Pinna
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What is the instrument called that is used to look into the ear?
Otoscope
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What is an aural hematoma?
collection of blood in pinna
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What is otitis?
Inflammation of ear
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What is externa otits?
Inflammation of outer ear
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What is media otitis?
Inflammation of middle ear
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What is interna otitis?
Inflammation of internal ear
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What is vertigo?
Sense of dizziness
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What is ablation?
Removal of a part

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