Ch. 16: Special Senses

Front 1

Accommodation

Back 1

Adjustment of the eye for various distances so that images fall on the retina of the eye

Front 2

Acuity

Back 2

Clearness or sharpness of a sensory function

Front 3

Adnexa

Back 3

Tissues or structure in the body adjacent to or near a related structure

Front 4

Humor

Back 4

Any fluid or semifluid of the body

Front 5

Labyrinth

Back 5

Series of intricate communicating passages

Front 6

Opaque

Back 6

Substance or surface that neither transmits nor allows the passage of light

Front 7

Perilymph

Back 7

Fluid that very closely resembles spinal fluid but found in the cochlea

Front 8

Photopigment

Back 8

Light-sensitive pigment in the retinal cones & rods that absorbs light & initiates the visual process

Front 9

Refractive

Back 9

Ability to bend light rays as they pass from one medium to another

Front 10

Tunic

Back 10

Layer or coat of tissue (membrane layer)

Front 11

Amblyopia

Back 11

Dimness of vision

Front 12

Aqueous

Back 12

Pertaining to water

Front 13

Blepharoptosis

Back 13

Prolapse or downward displacement of the eyelid

Front 14

Choroidopathy

Back 14

Disease of the choroid

Front 15

Coreometer

Back 15

Instrument for measuring the pupil

Front 16

Pupillography

Back 16

Process of recording movement of the pupil

Front 17

Cycloplegia

Back 17

Paralysis of the ciliary body

Front 18

Dacryoma

Back 18

Tumorlike swelling of the lacrimal duct

Front 19

Lacrimotomy

Back 19

Incision of the lacrimal duct or sac

Front 20

Dacryocystoptosis

Back 20

Prolapse of the lacrimal sac

Front 21

Hyperopia

Back 21

Excess farsighted vision

Front 22

Exotropia

Back 22

Abnormal turning outward of one or both eyes

Front 23

Esotropia

Back 23

Turning inward of eyes (cross eyed)

Front 24

Heteropsia

Back 24

Inequality of vision in the 2 eyes

Front 25

Presbycusis

Back 25

Hearing loss associated with old age

Front 26

Anacusia

Back 26

Not hearing (deaf)

Front 27

Tympanostomy

Back 27

Forming an opening in the tympanic membrane

Front 28

Glaucoma

Back 28

Gray tumor

Front 29

Gonioscopy

Back 29

Visual examination of the irideocorneal angle

Front 30

Iridoplegia

Back 30

Paralysis of the sphincter of the iris

Front 31

Keryatotomy

Back 31

Incision of the cornea

Front 32

Oculomycosis

Back 32

Fungal infection of eye or its parts

Front 33

Phacocele

Back 33

Herniation displacement of the lens into the interior chamber of eye