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Certified Paraoptometric Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Diabetic patients may have vision loss due to...






2. Provide a bigger field of vision.






3. Upward and diagonally






4. 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.






5. If a patient claims to have pain in the ye but does not have any other symptoms - when do you schedule them for an appointment?






6. What are used to treat dry eyes?






7. Downward and diagonally






8. Tropicamide - Atropine - Scopolamine - Phenylephrine






9. Proparacaine - Tetracaine - Cocaine






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






11. Laser-based - non contact - noon invasive imaging technique.






12. What provides the major refractive power of the eye?






13. Right eye (OD)






14. 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.






15. A method of determining the state of refraction of the eye by illumination the retina with a mirror and observing the direction of movement of the retinal illumination and adjacent shadow when the mirror is turned.






16. The interior portion of the eyeball that may be seen on ophthalmoscopy.






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






18. The distance from the back surface of the lens to the front of the eye.






19. Involves an imbalance in the positionig of the two eyes. I can cause the eys to cross in or tuyrn out. It's cause by a lack of coordination between the eyes.






20. Every _ Hour






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






22. A jelly-like subastance located in the anterior chamber.






23. Inward






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






25. Transparent covering of the eye that lies between the eyelid and front of the eye.






26. An ophthalmic stain - available in liquid form and is the most commonly used ophthlmic dye.






27. As needed






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






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






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






31. The distance between the center of the pupil of each eye.






32. Upward and inward






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. By mouth






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






40. The chart most often used to measure acuity at distance.






41. Glaucoma causes...






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






43. The nerve center of the eye where light is converted into an electrical signal that travels along the optic nerve to the brain.






44. What is the frame height - the most vertical dimension of the lens opening also known as?

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45. The lifeline into and out of the practice.






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






47. At bedtime






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






49. Layers in the cornea






50. One type of contact lens is applied after waking and removed before going to sleep.