Anatomy
The structure on the retina that will have the highest concentrations of Cones.
What is the Fovea?
A patient complains that their vision has worsened the past few months, and notes at night that bright lights have started to streak across their vision. They note that they need higher power readers or a magnifying glass to be able to read their books.
What is a Cataract
Glaucoma will cause the death of this kind of cell type along the retina/optic nerve
What is a Ganglion?
A transparent convex covering which protects the eye and helps focus light rays onto the retina and the back of the eye
What is the Cornea?
The phone number of our clinic.
What is (206) 528-6000?
The structure that produces the aqueous humor of the anterior chamber.
What is the Ciliary Body?
A patient begins to see an increase of floaters throughout their day, and a series of flashes begin intermittently over their eye. They go to bed, and wake up the next morning and notice a part of their vision has blacked out, almost like a curtain has been drawn
What is a Retinal Detachment
This type of Glaucoma results in symptoms such as pain, vomiting, and halos around lights.
What is Primary Angle Closure Glaucoma? (also will take acute angle closure attack).
The percentage of Refractive Power the Cornea is responsible for.
What is 66.6%?
It is what MR stands for
The three main structures that compose the Uveal Tract of the eye.
What is The Iris, Ciliary Body, and Choroid?
A patient notes they've begun to notice fogginess/loss of vision begin to creep in from the side of their right eye. They also tell you that they've begun to get a lot of irritation on that eye, and can feel like something is "in it." Patient tells you they're visiting, and they're actually from California and love to surf.
What is a Pterygium?
A higher reading of this measurement might indicate pressure readings may be overestimated
The Greek term for the Corneal inflammation (and the term we will use in clinic.
What is Keratitis?
Transpose this Rx: -3.50, -2.00 x 150
What is -5.50, +2.00 x 60?
The five layers of the cornea, from outermost to innermost layer
What is:
1. Corneal Epithelium 2. Bowman's 3. Stroma 4. Descemet's Membrane 5. Corneal Endothelium
The cells of the corneal epithelium slowly die ("slough off"), in turn killing the drainage system of the cornea. The fluid builds up, causing swelling of your cornea and thus blurring your vision.
What is Fuch's Dystrophy
The typical, normal Cup-To-Disc (C/D) ratio range.
What is 0.2 - 0.5
A patient may experience symptom such as blurred vision, double vision, constant prescription changes for glasses, and chronic irritation of the eye
What is keratoconous?
The test that instead of your teeth, we floss your eye
A defect in this eye muscle would result in a restriction of abduction
What is Lateral Rectus?
Your patient reports they are a boxer, and after a match they've noticed they're vision is super blurry, and when they move their head their vision distorts. Lights are now bothering them with tons of glare. Upon physical exam with the slit lamp, you almost believe you can see just a teeny part of their retina.
What is Subluxation of Lens?
The three main structures the aqueous humor will travel through as it drains out of the eye
What is the angle of the anterior chamber, the trabecular meshwork, and the cabal of Schlemm
A minimally invasive, flapless procedure that uses a laser to create a small lens-shaped piece of tissue inside the cornea, which is then removed through a tiny incision to correct nearsightedness and astigmatism (we do this here), an extra 100 points if you know the acronym
SMILE (Small Incision Lenticule Extraction )
The address of our practice.
What is 332 NE Northgate Way, Seattle, WA 98125 ?