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Eyes Abnormalities
Abnormalities of the eyes and ears
Question | Answer |
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Pseudostraubimus | false appearance of crossed eyes |
Strabismus (tropia) | Constant misalignment. May Cause Amblyopia |
Estropia | Eyes point inward |
Exotropia | Eyes point outwards |
Phoria | drifting to accommodate for weak muscles. |
Esophoria | Inward drifting |
exophoria | outward drifting |
Paralytic Strabismus | paralysis of an extraocular nerve |
Ptosis | Drooping Eye |
Exophthalmos | Extruding eyeballs |
Entropion | inward turned eyelid |
ectropin | outward turned eyelid |
blepharitis | Staph infection of the eye; inflammation of the eyelids |
Hordeulum | Stye (infected eyelash follicle) |
Miosis | pinpoint Eyes; constriction |
Anisocoria | unequal size |
Mydriasis | Dilated and Fixed stare |
Myopia | nearsightedness, 2nd number is larger than 20. Larger the second number, the worse vision you have. |
Legally blind at what vision? | 20/200 |
Presbyopia | lens of the eye loses its ability to focus. Move snellen card closer to accommodate. |
Ptosis | Drooping eyelid |
Cataract | Clouding of the eyes |
Number 1 cause of blindess | Cataract |
Nystagmus | Oscillating or shaking movement of the eye. |
Cyanosis of the lower lid | heart or lung disorder |
Papilledema | sweeling of the optic disk |
Glaucoma | conditions that affect the optic nerve. |
optic atrophy | evidence by the disc being white in color and lack of disc vessels |
cotton wool patches | evidence of hypertension |
hyphemia | injury causes red blood cells to collect in the lower half of the anterior chamber |
hypopyon | white blood cells accumulate in the anterior chamber and produce cloudiness in the iris |