Clinical Principles and Procedure
The standard tonometer for accuracy
What is the Goldmann tonometer?
The _________ connects the frame front to the temples, it also allows the temples to fold in behind the frame front so that the spectacles will occupy less space and fit into a case or pocket.
What is the hinge?
The prescription strength of the contact lens determines the ___________.
What is the lens power?
The phone must be answered before it has finished ringing this many times.
What is three/third?
The prefix meaning without
What is the A-, An?
The measure of the finest detail the eye can detect.
What is visual acuity?
The ________ refers to the angle the temple of the frame makes with the frame front.
This type of contact lens is made from polymers and plastic materials that are oxygen-permeable. They allow oxygen to come through the material. When compared to soft lenses, these last longer and usually provide sharper vision.
What are Rigid Gas-Permeable or simply Gas Permeable (GP) lenses?
The two main types of filing systems (according to CPO).
What are alphabetical and numerical?
The suffix meaning disease
What is -pathy?
_______________ measures the curvature of the cornea. It also determines the focusing power of the cornea.
What is keratometry (ophthalmometry)?
What are convex lenses?
_____________ and patient misunderstanding of contact lens care and handling is a common reason patients suffer complications or stop wearing their lenses.
What is non-compliance?
From the American Optometric Association Code of Ethics: To __________ their patients' eye, vision, and general health paramount at all times
What is keep?
The root word meaning eyelid
What is blephar?
The power of the cornea and the lens at rest correspond with the axial length of the eye, so parallel light rays are appropriately refracted to focus on the retina.
What is emmetropia?
The terms for the top of the prism and the bottom of the prism.
What are the apex and base?
The central area or zone that provides optical correction for the patient's vision and is measured with a magnifying reticule.
What is the optical zone diameter (OZD; OZ)?
Although hands cannot be sterilized, most transient organisms can be removed by ____ seconds of proper scrubbing with soap and water.
(pg 38)
What is 30 seconds?
The suffix meaning inflammation
What is -itis?
________________ is used for observing the fit of contact lenses, checking for foreign bodies in the eye, and looking at all parts of the front of the eye to see if they are healthy.
What is Biomicroscopy or slit lamp examination?
Objects view through this type of lens will appear smaller, or minified.
Edge thickness is generally higher in prescriptions for ____________________. Center thickness is generally thicker in lenses that correct for __________________.
What is nearsightedness (myopia)?
What is farsightedness (hyperopia)?
The acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of electronic information in a health care setting.
(pg 15)
What is Health Information Technology (HIT)?
The prefix meaning under, below
What is hypo-?