OPTHAMOLOGY Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
OPTHALMOLOGY | OPTHALM/O- EYE -OLOGY |
OPTHALMOLOGIST | PHYSICIAN WHO PRACTICES IN THE MEDICAL SPECIALTY OF OPTHALMOLOGY. CAN DO EVERYTHING AN OPTOMETRIST DOES BUT CAN ALSO PERFORM SURGERY |
CHOROID | SPONGY MEMBRANE OF BLOOD VESSELS THAT ARE PART OF THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE EYE. BETWEEN THE SCLERA AND RETINA. BLOOD VESSELS SUPPLY BLOOD TO THE EYE. |
SCLERA | WHITE OF THE EYE |
RETINA | INNERMOST LINING IN THE BACK OF THE EYE. PROCESSES LIGHT AND CONVERTS INTO NEURAL SIGNALS ON THE BRAIN FOR VISUAL RECOGNITION |
FOVEA | SHARPEST VISION - AREA OF GREATEST VISUAL ACTIVITY. LIES W/IN THE LARGER MACULA. A SMALL DEPRESSION IN THE CENTER OF THE MACULA |
PUPIL | ROUND OPENING THAT ALLOWS LIGHT RAYS TO ENTER THE EYE. |
OPTIC DISK | BLIND SPOT. BRIGHT YELLOW-WHITE CIRCLE WITH DISTINCT EDGES IN THE AREA OF THE RETINA CLOSEST TO THE NOSE. |
MYOPIA | MYOP/O - NEAR VISION - NEARSIGHTEDNESS |
HORDEOLUM | STYE - RED PAINFUL SWELLING OR PIMPLE CONTAINING PUS ON THE EYELID. CAUSED BY BACTERIAL INFECTION IN A SEBACEOUS GLAND. CAN BECOME A CHALAZION OR GRANULAR LUMP OR CYST |
CATARACT | CLOUDING OF THE LENS CAUSED BY AGING SUN EXPOSURE, TRAUMA, SMOKING OR DRUGS. VISION IS DULL AND BLURRY WITH FADED COLORS AND A YELLOWISH TINT AROUND THE LIGHTS |
LIMBUS | BODER WHERE THE WHITE SCLERA BECOMES THE TRANSPARENT CORNEA OVER THE ANTERIOR ASPECT OF THE EYE. |
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