CERTIFIED PARAOPTOMETRIC ACTUAL

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When a crystalline lens gets hard or cloudy with age, it is called a ______. - answers___-Cataract

What carries the impulses from the retina to the brain? - answers___-Optic Nerve What is the primary function of the inferior rectus muscles? - answers___-Turn the eye downward

What is the name of the light sensitive part of the eye? - answers___-Retina

Rods are the photoreceptors that provide color vision. - answers___-False

What happens when someone is diagnosed with keratoconus? - answers___-The cornea thins and bulges forward

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CERTIFIED PARAOPTOMETRIC (ACTUAL

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Corneal topography is used to screen patients before refractive surgery and diagnose refractive disorders and diseases. - answers___-True

What is corneal edema? - answers___-When water is retained and swelling occurs in the cornea

What is the distance from the back of the surface of the lens to the front of the eye? - answers___- Vertex distance

What is the Retroscopic Angle or tilt? - answers___-The name given to the angle the temple makes with the frame front when the bottom eye wire may be positioned away from the check

What is the name given to the area of the retinal responsible for seeing detail? - answers___- Macula

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CERTIFIED PARAOPTOMETRIC (ACTUAL

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What supplies most of the tears to the eye? - answers___-Lacrimal gland

What is the portion of the optic nerve that is formed by the meeting of all retinal nerve fibers called? - answers___-Optic disc

What is the name of the surgical procedure that uses the excimer laser to treat hyperopia, myopia, and astigmatism in the corneal stroma, and uses a microkeratome to create a flap? - answers___- LASIK

What is not part of the case history? - answers___- Social security number

Which drug stimulates the iris dilator muscle, causing the pupil to dilate? - answers___- Mydriatic

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