Word Parts
What is -cusis, or ot/o?
Health care practitioner who designs, fits, and dispenses lenses for vision correction.
What is an optician?
Sense of whirling, dizziness, and loss of balance often accompanied with nausea and vomiting.
What is vertigo?
What is trop/o?
Double vision
What is diplopia?
-Presby/o
Term for old age?
Doctor of optometry who provides primary eye care and diagnoses eye diseases and measures accuracy of vision
What is an optometrist?
Inflammation of the inner ear
What is otitis media?
Term for Cornea
What is kerat/o?
Eye socket
What is the orbit?
Term for vision condition
Eyelid drooping
What is ptosis?
Inflammation of the labyrinth that can result in vertigo and deafness
What is labyrinthitis?
Blephar/o
What is eyelid?
Outer ear
What is pinna?
-Tympan/o
What is tympanic membrane or eardrum?
Blepharitis
What is swelling of the eyelid?
Pressure related ear condition (can occur when flying, driving in mountains, scuba diving, or when eustachian tube is blocked
What is barotrauma?
Term for nearsightedness
What is myopia?
A brain tumor that can cause hearing loss, vertigo, and tinnitus
What is an acoustic neuroma?
Term for sclera, white of eye, hard
What is scler/o?
Ringing or buzzing in the ears
What is tinnitus?
Common cause of vertigo related to displacement of small crystals (otoconia) into the semicircular canals
What is benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)?
Term for farsightedness
What is hyperopia?
Blind Spot
What is a scotoma?