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Certified Paraoptometric Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are plus lenses used to correct?






2. The system for sorting and assigning priorities for medical treatment based on the urgency of the systems.






3. Dilators






4. A layer located behind the retina and absorbs unused radiation.






5. The gel that fills the eye and allows it to maintain its shape. Also serves as a clear pathway for light when it travels from the lens to the retina.






6. Ultraviolet Coating protect the eye from damaging...






7. When water is retained and swelling occurs in the cornea.






8. A test that measures the pressure inside your eye - which is called intraocular pressure.






9. Its purpose: Improve the portability and continuity of health insurance overage - improve access to long-term care services and coverage - to simplify administrative care.






10. Constrictors






11. Downward and inward






12. Layers in the cornea






13. Outward






14. Measurement of the form and curvature of the cornea.






15. A topical anesthetic.






16. When the vision in one of the eyes is reduced because the eye and the brain aren't working together properly. The eye itself may look normal - but it's not being used normally because the brain is favoring the other eye.






17. What does a tonometer measure?






18. Drop






19. Is a clouding of the eye's lens and is the leading cause of blindness.






20. Surgical removal of the lens - usually replaced with a plastic intraocular lens.






21. The result of the refraction depends on the patient's ability to discern changes in clarity. This process relies on the cooperation of the Patient.






22. The ability to maintain visual focus on an object with both eyes creating a single visual image.






23. Associated with aging and results in damaging sharp and central vision.






24. What is the name for the part of the frame that connects the two eyewires?






25. A broken blood vessel between the sclera and conjunctiva.






26. Upward and diagonally






27. A paralysis of the ciliary muscle - so accommodation can't occur.






28. Numerous different surgeries that facilitate the escape of excess aqueous humor from the eye to lower the intraocular pressure and a few that lower IOP by decreasing the production of aqueous humor.






29. What are used to treat dry eyes?






30. Back vertex power which includes sphere and cylinder power.






31. This is the pathway between the ye and the brain along which the signals produced by the retina travel to the brain.






32. Upward and inward






33. A test that allows a doctor to see inside the back of the eye and other structures using a magnifying instrument and a light source.






34. Right eye (OD)






35. What is the primary function of the inferior rectus muscle?






36. Protected health Information






37. Refers to imaging by section or sectioning - through the use of any kind of penetrating wave.






38. Which type of lens will have the same power in all areas of the lens?






39. A complication of diabetes - progressive damage to the blood vessels of the retina.






40. The portion of the optic nerve that is formed by the meeting of all retinal nerve fibers.






41. What's it called when the cornea thins and bulges forward?






42. Computer-assisted method of mapping the surface curvature of the cornea.






43. A group of diseases that can damage the eye's optic nerve and result in the vision loss and blindness. It occurs when the normal fluid pressure inside the eyes slowly rises.






44. As needed






45. The smallest unit of lens measure.






46. The creation of a photograph of the interior surface of the eye.






47. Supplies most of the tears to the eye.






48. The measure of the finest detail the eye may detect.






49. Controls the focusing power of the eye by changing the shape of the lens.






50. What lens material is the easiest to break?