Located in the anterior chamber, this fluid is responsible for intraocular pressure.
What is Aqueous Humor?
100
Most frequently used device for the partially or totally blind person; but does not usually help in detecting overhead objects.
What is a Cane?
100
A refractory error that is a defect in the curvature of the eyeball surface causing blurred vision.
What is Astigmatism.
100
Test used to detect a defect of the macular area of the retina.
What is Amsler's Grid Test?
100
The length of time between instillation of two different eye drops.
What is five (5) minutes?
200
Process in which the eye is able to focus on an object at various distances.
What is Accommodation?
200
Type of blindness where a the patient has some light perception but no usable vision.
What is Functional?
200
Also known as "pink eye", a viral or bacterial infection that leads to inflammation.
What is Conjunctivitis?
200
Test that evaluates the function of the major lacrimal glands.
What is Schirmer's Tear Test?
200
This medication agent assists with the treatment of glaucoma by reducing the formation of aqeous humor.
What are Beta-adrenergic Blocking Agents?
300
The first part of the eye that refracts or bends light rays.
What is the Cornea?
300
Type of blindness that results from various birth defects.
What is Congenital?
300
The number one goal for nursing with any inflammatory or infectious eye disorders.
What is the spread of infection?
300
Class of drug used to help with pupillary dilation during an ophthalmoscopy.
What are Mydriatics?
300
Indicates hemmorhage or infection after an enucleation.
What is a headache?
400
Located in the posterior chamber of the eye, a jellylike substance that gives shape to the eyeball and refracts light.
What is Vitreous Humor?
400
Type of blindness if the paitnet has a maximum visual acuity of 20/200 or a visual field capacity of 20 degrees.
What is Legal Blindness?
400
Tends to develop more frequently in patients with diabetes; an eye disorder that is painless and results in blurred vision and abnormal color perception.
What are Cataracts?
400
Vision test that involvs the client standing 20 feet away from a chart and covering one eye to read the letters displayed on the chart.
What is Snellen's Test?
400
Treatment that is useful in diabetic retinopathy to cauterize hemorrhaging vessels.
What is Photocoagulation?
500
Contains specialized sensory cells called rods and cones.
What is the Retina?
500
What you must do when you enter or leave a blind individual's room.
What is Announce it?
500
Type of glaucoma that causes mild eye pain, halos around lights, and difficulty adjusting to darkness.
What is Primary Open Angle?
500
Test that detects and evaluates the progression of glaucoma?
What is Goldmann Perimetry?
500
Increasing this, should be avoided after any eye surgery.