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Certified Paraoptometric Test Questions and Answers 100% Verified The ______ is a clear, cellophane-like tissue that lines the inside surface of the eyelids ✔✔Bulbar conjunctiva & Palpebral con... junctiva The ______ muscle has direct control over the focusing ability of the eye ✔✔Ciliary The choroid consists primarily of blood vessels that nourish the: ✔✔Crystalline Lens The _________ is the area located inside the eye, behind the iris, and in front of the lens ✔✔Posterior Chamber The area of the macula where visual acuity is the sharpest and is used for daytime and color vision is called the: ✔✔Fovea centralis The thick jelly-like substance that fills the eyeball behind the lens is called the: ✔✔Vitreous humor Each eye has how many muscles to assist in ocular movement? ✔✔Six The area of the retina responsible for seeing detail is the: ✔✔Macula The area that is located behind the cornea and in front of the iris is the: ✔✔Anterior Chamber Which of the following is the ability of the eye to focus objects at varying distances? ✔✔Accommodation What is the most commonly used ophthalmic dye which is available in liquid form or impregnated on dry, paper filter strips? ✔✔Sodium Fluorescein What is the therapeutic drug used to reduce inflammation? ✔✔Corticosteroids The optic nerve is damaged from increased intraocular pressure ✔✔Glaucoma These are caused by mechanical simulation of nerves in the retina ✔✔Flashes Thickening of the connective tissue on the sides of the cornea, usually in the 3 & 9 o' clock positions ✔✔Pinguecula Commonly known as pink eye ✔✔Conjunctivitis Small blood vessel rupture between the sclera and conjunctiva ✔✔Subconjunctivalhemorrhage Inflammation of the eyelids ✔✔Blepharitis Caused by debris in the tears and in the fluid inside the eye ✔✔Floaters The retina pulls away from the rest of the eyeball ✔✔Retinal detachment The pores in the eyelid become blocked and inflamed, commonly called a stye ✔✔Hordeolum This causes fragile blood vessels on the retina to leak or break ✔✔Diabetic Retionopathy Advancing age causes the central area of vision to break down ✔✔Macular Degeneration A small lump on the eyelid ✔✔Chalazion The cornea changes to an irregular cone shape ✔✔Keratonconus Is the term for the condition in which an image will focus on the back of the retina when accommodation is relaxed. These patients will not require any corrective prescription lenses ✔✔Emmetropia Which of the following types of ametropia occurs when an image is focused in front of the retina and is usually caused by the eye being too long? ✔✔Myopia The ability of the eyes to focus objects from distance to near is called? ✔✔Accommodation Which of the following types of lenses corrects hyperopria? ✔✔Plus Nearsightedness is to myopia, as farsightness is to: ✔✔Hyperopia The retinoscope will indicated the patient's refractive error when ✔✔All motion in every direction is stopped when the light is moved across the pupil Alternating esotropia is a condition in which ✔✔The patient fixates with only one eye while the other eye turns in Visual field testing determines ✔✔the area of the space visible to the eye Which of the following tests is used to measure the visual field? ✔✔Perimetry Which of the following instruments allows close examination of the lids and lashes? ✔✔Biomicroscope In order for first time patients to adapt to their contact lenses, a wearing schedule is given to allow ✔✔a gradual buildup of wearing time The most common reason patients stop wearing contact lenses is? ✔✔Non-compliance A contact lens prescription and spectacle prescription may differ because ✔✔Of the vertex distance between the contact lens and the spectacle lens The edge thickness of a contact lens ✔✔Is an important factor in the comfort of the lens When writing up a contact lens order for a soft lens, it is necessary to specify: ✔✔Lens brand or type, the base curve, overall diameter, and the lens power The diastolic pressure reflects ✔✔The amount of force when the heart is at rest What is an eye in which the image is not focused at one point but rather two points? ✔✔Astigmatism What is the ability of the eyes to focus objects from distance to near called? ✔✔Accommodation What is with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye focused directly on the retina called? ✔✔Emmetropia What with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye focused before the retina resulting in blurry distant vision called? ✔✔Hyperopia What is with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye focused before the retina resulting in blurry distant vision called? ✔✔Myopia What is the loss of ability to see clearly at near called? ✔✔Presbyopia What is a nonspecific term that means the patient has a refractive condition called? ✔✔Ametropia A more complete look at the back of the eye. Often done as part of a complete eye exam ✔✔Pupil dialation The technical term for pressure inside of the eye is known as ✔✔Intraocular pressure The specific instrument used to measure the pressure inside the eye is called ✔✔Goldman tonometer The test used to measure pressure inside the eye is ✔✔Tonometry Conditions that affect the whole body are called? ✔✔systemic diseases An instrument that is worn on the examiners head and used to view the back of the eye is called ✔✔Binocular indirect ophthalmoscope An instrument that measures the curvature of the cornea is called ✔✔Keratometer or ophthalmometer A test that does not require responses from the patient is called ✔✔Objective The instrument that is used for manual refracting is called a ✔✔Phoropter The part of the eye exam that serves as a guide for the tests to be performed during the office visit is called ✔✔Case history An instrument that can obtain an estimate of the patient's prescription without the patient's response is called a ✔✔Retinoscope The term that represents how well the two eyes work together is known as ✔✔Binocular vision An instrument that gives the examiner a magnified view of the structures of the eye-particularly the front structures of the eye- is called a ✔✔Biomicroscope or slit lamp The area in space that is visible to the eye is called ✔✔Visual field The letters that are often the most used to measure visual acuity are called ✔✔Snellen What is the prescription strength of the lens called? ✔✔Lens power What is the primary curve on the backside of the lens called? ✔✔Base curve radius What are additional curves on the lens that surrounds the optical zone called? ✔✔Pheriphal curves What is the center area of the lens that provides optical correction for the patients vision ✔✔Optical zone What is the measurement from edge to edge of the lens at the widest point called? ✔✔Overall diameter these lenses are also called convex lenses. They are thick in the center and thin on the edges. Light rays passing through these lenses will be converged ✔✔Plus these lenses are thin in the center and thick on the edges. Objects viewed through these lenses will appear smaller or minified. Light rays passing through these lenses will be diverged ✔✔Minus What instrument is used to verify the spectacle prescription? ✔✔Lensometer Which of the following terms is used to designate a lens without power? ✔✔Plano Which of the following lenses has the same power in all areas of the lens and is used to treat myopia or hyperopia? ✔✔Spherical Which of the following lens materials is the most shatter-resistant? ✔✔Polycarbonate Which type of lens corrects vision at three distances? ✔✔Trifocal The part of the frame that surrounds each lens, holding the lens in place within the frame is the ✔✔Eyewire The part of the frame that extends from the frame front, back, and alongside the head, and over the ear of the wearer is ✔✔Temple The widest horizontal dimension of the lens opening of a frame is the ✔✔A Dimension A picture representation of the pressure points between the eyeglass frame and the patients head is the ✔✔Fitting triangle Which of the following tilts results when a pair of spectacles is tilted so that the bottom of the lenses is closer to the face than the top? ✔✔Pantoscopic The largest diameter through the lens is called the ✔✔Effective diameter A lens that converges parallel light is called ✔✔Convex (+) The unit of measure for ophthalmic lenses is ✔✔diopter This lens diverges parallel light ✔✔Concave (-) A lens that displaces light rather than focuses light is called ✔✔Prism A lens that has one curve is called a ✔✔spherical The point of a prism is called the ✔✔apex A lens where one part has no power and 90 degrees away there is power is called a ✔✔plcylinder A lens used to treat myopia/hyperopia and astigmatism is called a ✔✔sph/cylindrical The middle value of a lens prescription is called the ✔✔cylindrical The position of the cylinder in the lens is called the ✔✔axis [Show More]

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