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Ophthalmoscopy ✔✔The Examination of the inside of the eye.
Vertex distance ✔✔The distance from the back surface of the lens to the front of the eye.
Fundus ✔✔T
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Certified Paraoptometric Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
Ophthalmoscopy ✔✔The Examination of the inside of the eye.
Vertex distance ✔✔The distance from the back surface of the lens to the front of the eye.
Fundus ✔✔The interior portion of the eyeball that may be seen on ophthalmoscopy.
Turn the eye downward ✔✔What is the primary function of the inferior rectus muscle?
Sub conjunctival hemorrhage ✔✔A broken blood vessel between the sclera and conjunctiva.
What does a lensometer measure? ✔✔Back vertex power which includes sphere and cylinder
power.
Aspheric lenses provide a smaller field of vision. ✔✔False
Visual acuity ✔✔The measure of the finest detail the eye may detect.
Corneal Edema ✔✔When water is retained and swelling occurs in the cornea.
Snellen Chart ✔✔The chart most often used to measure acuity at distance.
0.25 D ✔✔The smallest unit of lens measure.
Which type of lens will have the same power in all areas of the lens? ✔✔Spherical
What lens material is the easiest to break? ✔✔Glass
Trivex ✔✔A mid-index lens material that is thinner than glass or CR-39, free from distortion and
aberration and able to be used as a safety lens.
Sphygmomanometer and stethoscope ✔✔Two instruments are used to test patient blood
pressure.
Conventional daily wear lenses ✔✔One type of contact lens is applied after waking and removed
before going to sleep.
Macula ✔✔The part of the retina responsible for sharp, clear vision.
Optic Disc ✔✔The portion of the optic nerve that is formed by the meeting of all retinal nerve
fibers.
Photoablation ✔✔The procedure using ultraviolet radiation from a laser to remove tissue.
What is the name for the part of the frame that connects the two eyewires? ✔✔Bridge
Monovision ✔✔Corrects one eye for distance and the other eye for near and can be used to
correct presbyopia.
Phoropter ✔✔The instrument that contains lenses and can be used to determine a spectacle
correction.
What does a tonometer measure? ✔✔Pressure in the eye.
Proparacaine ✔✔A topical anesthetic.
What are used to treat dry eyes? ✔✔Artificial Tears and Lubricants
Five ✔✔Layers in the cornea
Aqueous humor ✔✔Provides nutrients for the lens and posterior cornea.
Retina ✔✔The light sensitive part of the eye.
Rods are the photoreceptors that provide color vision. ✔✔False
Glaucoma causes damage to the eye. ✔✔True
Diabetic patients may have vision loss due to diabetic retinopathy. ✔✔True
What is the purpose of HIPPA. ✔✔Improve the portability and continuity of health insurance
overage, improve access to long-term care services and coverage, to simplify administrative care.
PHI ✔✔Protected health Information
Numerical and Alphabetical ✔✔The two main types of filing systems.
Telephone ✔✔The lifeline into and out of the practice.
Immediately have them come in to the office ✔✔If a patient claims to have pain in the ye but
does not have any other symptoms, when do you schedule them for an appointment?
Ultraviolet Coating protect the eye from damaging UV light indoors and outdoors. ✔✔True
Triage ✔✔The system for sorting and assigning priorities for medical treatment based on the
urgency of the systems.
Plano ✔✔A lens with no power.
Sodium Fluorescein ✔✔An ophthalmic stain, available in liquid form and is the most commonly
used ophthlmic dye.
Laser-based, non contact, noon invasive imaging technique. ✔✔Optical Coherence Tomography
(OCT)
Hyperopia and Presbyopia ✔✔What are plus lenses used to correct?
What's it called when the cornea thins and bulges forward? ✔✔keratoconus
Oculus dexter ✔✔Right eye (OD)
What are cycloplegic drugs used for? ✔✔To dilate the eyes.
What provides the major refractive power of the eye? ✔✔Cornea
Anti-reflective coatings ✔✔Increases visual acuity because it reduces internal lens reflections.
Interpupillary distance (PD) ✔✔The distance between the center of the pupil of each eye.
Lacrimal gland ✔✔Supplies most of the tears to the eye.
"B" Measurement ✔✔What is the frame height, the most vertical dimension of the lens opening
also known as?
Conjunctiva ✔✔Transparent covering of the eye that lies between the eyelid and front of the eye.
Lens ✔✔Located behind the pupil, and is the secondary mechanism of focus, adjusting the
amount of focus the light image requires before it reaches the retina.
Vitreous ✔✔The gel that fills the eye and allows it to maintain its shape. Also serves as a clear
pathway for light when it travels from the lens to the retina.
Optic Nerve ✔✔This is the pathway between the ye and the brain along which the signals
produced by the retina travel to the brain.
Retina ✔✔The nerve center of the eye where light is converted into an electrical signal that
travels along the optic nerve to the brain.
Aqueous Humour ✔✔A jelly-like subastance located in the anterior chamber.
Choroid ✔✔A layer located behind the retina and absorbs unused radiation.
Macular Degeneration ✔✔Associated with aging and results in damaging sharp and central
vision.
Cataract ✔✔Is a clouding of the eye's lens and is the leading cause of blindness.
Diabetic Retinopathy ✔✔A complication of diabetes, progressive damage to the blood vessels of
the retina.
Glaucoma ✔✔A group of diseases that can damage the eye's optic nerve and result in the vision
loss and blindness. It occurs when the normal fluid pressure inside the eyes slowly rises.
Amblyopia ✔✔(Lazy Eye) When the vision in one of the eyes is reduced because the eye and the
brain aren't working together properly. The eye itself may look normal, but it's not being used
normally because the brain is favoring the other eye.
Strabismus ✔✔Involves an imbalance in the positionig of the two eyes. I can cause the eys to
cross in or tuyrn out. It's cause by a lack of coordination between the eyes.
Conjunctivitis ✔✔Swelling or infection of the membrane lining the eyelids or Conjunctiva.
Cataract Surgery ✔✔Surgical removal of the lens, usually replaced with a plastic intraocular
lens.
Glaucoma Surgery ✔✔Numerous different surgeries that facilitate the escape of excess aqueous
humor from the eye to lower the intraocular pressure and a few that lower IOP by decreasing the
production of aqueous humor.
Mydriatics ✔✔Dilators
Miotics ✔✔Constrictors
Eye Anaesthetics ✔✔Proparacaine, Tetracaine, Cocaine
Eye Dilators ✔✔Tropicamide, Atropine, Scopolamine, Phenylephrine
Cycloplegia ✔✔A paralysis of the ciliary muscle, so accommodation can't occur.
Keratometry ✔✔Measurement of the form and curvature of the cornea.
Retinoscopy ✔✔A method of determining the state of refraction of the eye by illumination the
retina with a mirror and observing the direction of movement of the retinal illumination and
adjacent shadow when the mirror is turned.
Subjective Refraction ✔✔The result of the refraction depends on the patient's ability to discern
changes in clarity. This process relies on the cooperation of the Patient.
Ophthalmoscopy ✔✔A test that allows a doctor to see inside the back of the eye and other
structures using a magnifying instrument and a light source.
Binocular Vision ✔✔The ability to maintain visual focus on an object with both eyes creating a
single visual image.
Tonometry ✔✔A test that measures the pressure inside your eye, which is called intraocular
pressure.
Visual Fields ✔✔The entire area that can be seen when the eye is directed forward including that
which is seen with peripheral vision.
Biomicroscopy ✔✔The Optothalmic examination of the eye by use of a slit lamp and a
magnifying lens.
Fundus Photography ✔✔The creation of a photograph of the interior surface of the eye.
Tomography ✔✔Refers to imaging by section or sectioning, through the use of any kind of
penetrating wave.
Topography ✔✔Computer-assisted method of mapping the surface curvature of the cornea.
gtt ✔✔Drop
qhs ✔✔At bedtime
q_h ✔✔Every _ Hour
p.o. ✔✔by mouth
p.r.n. ✔✔As needed
Ciliary Muscle ✔✔Controls the focusing power of the eye by changing the shape of the lens.
Superior Rectus ✔✔upward and inward
Inferior rectus ✔✔downward and inward
Internal/medial rectus ✔✔inward
external/lateral rectus ✔✔outward
superior oblique ✔✔downward and diagonally
inferior oblique ✔✔upward and diagonally
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