Eye Health Professions
This eye care professional interprets prescriptions to prepare and dispense eyeglasses, contact lenses, and other optical devices.
optician
What type of lamp is actually a microscope with a powerful light that can be used to look inside the eyeball?
Slit lamp
Unlike most body parts that grow over time, this sensory organ remains the same size from birth.
Your eyes!
There are two kinds of photoreceptors in the human retina, each responsible for vision at different intensities of light. Name both of them.
rods and cones
What “M” word is an alternate word, derived from the Greek, for nearsightedness?
myopia
This type of eye doctor specializes in prescribing glasses and contact lenses, diagnosing eye diseases, and providing vision therapy.
optometrist
Also known as a refractor, what is the P-word for the ophthalmic testing device with many different lenses used in succession for testing a patient's eyesight?
Phoropter
If you don’t eat enough fish, dairy, and carrots, you might not be able to see well in the dark. Which vitamin deficiency leads to night blindness?
Vitamin A
Although the eyes sense light, you actually see with this organ, which processes visual information through over a million nerve fibers.
Amblyopia is more commonly known as what languishing two-word term that is described as “reduced vision in one eye caused by abnormal visual development early in life” by the Mayo Clinic?
Lazy eye
This specialist helps patients with significant vision loss maximize their remaining sight through visual aids and rehabilitation strategies.
low vision specialist
A patient’s baseline prescription can be established by using which instrument controlled by a computer that measures refractive error?
Optometer
The average person blinks this many times per minute, adding up to approximately 10,000 blinks per day.
12x/min
These muscles are the most active in the human body, constantly moving to adjust focus, track motion, and process visual information.
Eye muscles
What “C” optical condition, a redness and swelling of the tissue lining the eyelids and white parts of the eyes, is often referred to as “pink eye?”
Conjunctivitis
These professionals help fit and dispense corrective lenses, including glasses and contact lenses, based on prescriptions from an eye doctor.
ophthalmologist
Which tool is used to assess astigmatism by measuring the curvature of the front of the cornea?
Keratometer
Certain light-sensitive cells in the eye help regulate sleep by controlling the production of this "M" hormone.
melatonin
What “C” word is the mucous membrane that covers the front of the eye and the inside of the eyelids?
conjunctiva
The pigmentary type of which eye disease that can lead to blindness happens when pigment parts break off from the iris and get trapped in the eye’s drainage system?
Glaucoma
This certified allied health professional works under an ophthalmologist to diagnose and treat binocular vision disorders and eye movement problems.
orthoptist
What “T” device is used by eye care professionals to measure the intraocular pressure of the human eye, to test against the presence of issues such as glaucoma?
Tonometer
What American Founding Father created the first bifocals? He took his glasses for viewing distant objects and his glasses for viewing nearby objects, cut the lenses in half horizontally, then mixed them.
Benjamin Franklin
Central, high-resolution, color vision in humans is thanks to an oval-shaped, pigmented area of the retina known by what M-word name?
Macula
What “M” type of degeneration in the eye, occurring most often in aging patients, is blurry and reduced vision caused by a thinning of a membrane in the back of the retina?
macular degeneration