Eye Conditions
This condition has 4 classifications: esotropia, exotropia, hypertropa, and hyoptropia.
What is strabismus?
This is also known as "near-sightedness."
What is myopia?
This muscular diaphragm gives eyes their color.
What is the iris?
This microscope with a narrow, high-intensity light source used to examine the interior of the eye.
What is a slit lamp?
Caused by the degeneration of protein in the eye's lens, this condition clouds vision.
What are cataracts?
This condition describes blurry vision due to a misshapen cornea that refracts lights onto several places on the retina.
What is astigmatism?
The dark part of your eye that becomes small with light and large in light's absence.
What is the pupil?
This device uses a combination of lenses to determine one's prescription.
What is a phoropter/refractor?
Caused by pressure in the eye that damages the optic nerve, this condition causes loss of vision.
What is glaucoma?
Name the optometric term for right eye, left eye, and both eyes.
What is oculus dexter (OD), oculus sinister (OS), and oculus uterque (OU)?
This part of the eye is responsible for central vision and is impacted by AMD.
What is the macula?
This device allows the health of the retina to be analyzed without the need of dilation.
What is retinal imaging/ optomap/ Eidon?
A painful, red bump either inside or outside the eye, caused by a blockage in the eye's oil glands.
What is a stye/hordeolum?
This is also known as "far-sightedness."
What is hyperopia?
Made of rods and cones, this part of the eye converts light into electrical signals.
What is the retina?
What instrument can measure the prescription in a pair of glasses?
What is a lensometer?
What is the name of the condition that causes age-related loss of flexibility in the eye's lens, typically starting after age 40, causing difficulty focusing on close objects.
What is presbyopia?
This bundle of fibers carries visual information from the eye to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
The transparent part of the eye covers the iris and pupil.
What is the cornea?