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Certified Paraoptometric Exam
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1. 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.
Subjective Refraction
Glass
Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
Topography
2. The Examination of the inside of the eye.
Ophthalmoscopy
0.25 D
Plano
qhs
3. The chart most often used to measure acuity at distance.
Tomography
q_h
Snellen Chart
Telephone
4. The creation of a photograph of the interior surface of the eye.
Glaucoma
Fundus Photography
Vitreous
Cornea
5. The entire area that can be seen when the eye is directed forward including that which is seen with peripheral vision.
Visual Fields
Cataract
Monovision
Sodium Fluorescein
6. Ultraviolet Coating protect the eye from damaging...
Choroid
Vitreous
UV light indoors and outdoors
Triage
7. A paralysis of the ciliary muscle - so accommodation can't occur.
Aqueous humor
Vitreous
Cycloplegia
Mydriatics
8. The distance between the center of the pupil of each eye.
Cataract Surgery
Triage
Interpupillary distance (PD)
HIPPA
9. Is a clouding of the eye's lens and is the leading cause of blindness.
superior oblique
Vertex distance
Plano
Cataract
10. Inward
Conjunctiva
Vitreous
external/lateral rectus
Internal/medial rectus
11. The instrument that contains lenses and can be used to determine a spectacle correction.
PHI
Phoropter
0.25 D
Pressure in the eye
12. 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.
Inferior rectu
Turn the eye downward
Subjective Refraction
Glass
13. 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.
gtt
Retinoscopy
Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
Ophthalmoscopy
14. The ability to maintain visual focus on an object with both eyes creating a single visual image.
Fundus Photography
Sphygmomanometer and stethoscope
Binocular Vision
To dilate the eyes
15. The distance from the back surface of the lens to the front of the eye.
damage to the eye
Aqueous Humour
Immediately have them come in to the office
Vertex distance
16. The smallest unit of lens measure.
0.25 D
Keratometry
Five
Cornea
17. Upward and inward
Spherical
Superior Rectu
Keratometry
PHI
18. Provide a bigger field of vision.
Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
Aspheric lenses
Inferior rectu
Vertex distance
19. One type of contact lens is applied after waking and removed before going to sleep.
Glaucoma
p.o.
Conventional daily wear lenses
Monovision
20. What is the name for the part of the frame that connects the two eyewires?
Tonometry
Conjunctivitis
Hyperopia and Presbyopia
Bridge
21. A jelly-like subastance located in the anterior chamber.
Lacrimal gland
Triage
Aqueous Humour
Eye Anaesthetics
22. What is the primary function of the inferior rectus muscle?
Monovision
Ciliary Muscle
Photoablation
Turn the eye downward
23. The system for sorting and assigning priorities for medical treatment based on the urgency of the systems.
Ophthalmoscopy
Triage
Retina
Pressure in the eye
24. What provides the major refractive power of the eye?
Cornea
gtt
Glaucoma
Retina
25. The two main types of filing systems.
Binocular Vision
Vertex distance
Immediately have them come in to the office
Numerical and Alphabetical
26. A layer located behind the retina and absorbs unused radiation.
Numerical and Alphabetical
Plano
Binocular Vision
Choroid
27. A broken blood vessel between the sclera and conjunctiva.
Conventional daily wear lenses
damage to the eye
Sub conjunctival hemorrhage
What does a lensometer measure?
28. Diabetic patients may have vision loss due to...
Macular Degeneration
0.25 D
Diabetic retinopathy
Topography
29. The lifeline into and out of the practice.
Eye Anaesthetics
Five
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Telephone
30. Drop
Phoropter
Cataract Surgery
gtt
Glaucoma
31. Dilators
Cycloplegia
Mydriatics
Optic Disc
Aqueous humor
32. 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.
q_h
Phoropter
Ophthalmoscopy
Choroid
33. Downward and inward
Aspheric lenses
Spherical
Inferior rectu
q_h
34. What's it called when the cornea thins and bulges forward?
Keratoconus
Ophthalmoscopy
Turn the eye downward
To dilate the eyes
35. When water is retained and swelling occurs in the cornea.
Corneal Edema
Retina
To dilate the eyes
Five
36. Downward and diagonally
Tomography
Trivex
Inferior rectu
superior oblique
37. A topical anesthetic.
Eye Dilators
Five
Optic Nerve
Proparacaine
38. 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.
Tomography
Biomicroscopy
Glaucoma Surgery
Interpupillary distance (PD)
39. A complication of diabetes - progressive damage to the blood vessels of the retina.
Conjunctiva
Diabetic Retinopathy
Sodium Fluorescein
Vitreous
40. Refers to imaging by section or sectioning - through the use of any kind of penetrating wave.
Five
qhs
Tomography
Conventional daily wear lenses
41. Transparent covering of the eye that lies between the eyelid and front of the eye.
Telephone
Trivex
Proparacaine
Conjunctiva
42. The procedure using ultraviolet radiation from a laser to remove tissue.
Phoropter
Photoablation
Ophthalmoscopy
Immediately have them come in to the office
43. An ophthalmic stain - available in liquid form and is the most commonly used ophthlmic dye.
Topography
Sodium Fluorescein
Strabismus
Internal/medial rectus
44. 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.
Lens
Fundus Photography
gtt
Vitreous
45. 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.
What does a lensometer measure?
p.o.
Glaucoma
Telephone
46. Supplies most of the tears to the eye.
Lacrimal gland
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Choroid
PHI
47. The light sensitive part of the eye.
Inferior rectu
Ophthalmoscopy
Retina
Plano
48. Provides nutrients for the lens and posterior cornea.
Photoablation
gtt
Aqueous humor
Internal/medial rectus
49. A mid-index lens material that is thinner than glass or CR-39 - free from distortion and aberration and able to be used as a safety lens.
Bridge
Conventional daily wear lenses
Trivex
Eye Anaesthetics
50. Constrictors
Miotics
Cornea
Conventional daily wear lenses
Anti-reflective coatings