ABO exam Study Guide 2 with Questions and 100% Solutions
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Course
ABO
Institution
ABO
Who is generally credited with the invention of spectacles? - Salvino d'Armati of
Florence, Italy (1285)
When were minus or concave lenses invented? - 16th century for correction of myopic
eyes (nearsightedness)
When were toric lenses invented and by whom? - 19th century by Suscipi
Who is cred...
ABO exam Study Guide 2 with Questions and 100% Solutions Who is generally credited with the invention of spectacles? - ✔Salvino d'Armati of Florence, Italy (1285) When were minus or concave lenses invented? - ✔16th century for correction of myopic eyes (nearsightedness) When were t oric lenses invented and by whom? - ✔19th century by Suscipi Who is credited with making the first bifocals? - ✔Benjamin Franklin (1784) Who aroused the interest of physicians concerning the exam of the eye and prescribing spectale lenses? - ✔F.C. Do nders (1800) Ocularist - ✔a paramedical technician who designs, fabricates, hand paints, and fits ocular protheses for those who have lost one or both eyes photophobia - ✔fear of light iritis - ✔an inflammation of the iris. contraocular - ✔pert aining to the opposite eye enophthalmos - ✔recession of the eyeball into the orbit heterotropia - ✔eyes do not maintain parallelism, but take a permanent position of convergence or divergence uvetis - ✔inflammation involving the uveal tract hyphema - ✔blood in the anterior chamber of the eye binocular - ✔pertaining to both eyes, the use of both eyes simutaneously anophthalmos - ✔abscence of an eyeball (newborn) aspheric - ✔a curve of multiple radii achromat - ✔a totally color blind i ndividual, a lens free from chromatic abberation hemophthalmia - ✔blood (hemmorrhage) within the eye aniridia - ✔complete or partial absence of the iris endophthalmitis - ✔inflammation of the tissues of the internal structures of the eye ansiot ropia - ✔unequal turning of the eyes diplopia - ✔double vision exophthalmos - ✔abnormal protrusion of the eyeball outward and forward hemianopsia - ✔blindness in half the visual field of one or both eyes opthalmoscope - ✔an instrument for viewi ng the fundus and interior of the eye supraduction - ✔an upward rotation of the eye retinoscope - ✔an instrument for viewing or shinning light on the retina to determine the refractive state of the eye keratitis - ✔inflammation of the cornea keratoconus - ✔deformity of the cornea in which it becomes cone shapped, due to stretching of tissues in its central area. kerat -;kerato - - ✔cornea blaph -; blapharo - - ✔eyelid lach- - ✔tears dacry - - ✔tears (abnormal) core - - ✔pupil phac - - ✔lens phoria - - ✔muscular imbalance
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