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32 Cards in this Set
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Ptosis
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Upper eyelid drooping
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Entropion
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Inward turning of lid margin, common in elderly
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Ectropion
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Outward turning of lid margin, common in elderly
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Exophalmos
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Wide-eyed stare – Graves disease if bilateral, tumor if unilateral
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Dacrocystitis
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Lacrimal sac inflammation
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Conjunctivitis
(conjunctival injection) |
Diffuse redness of conjunctiva
discharge (pus) mild pain/discomfort clear cornea note: conjunctival injection (reddening) is more superficial therefore more red than corneal injection (deeper/less red) |
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Subconjunctival hemorrhage
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Homogoneous sharply demarcated red area which disappears over a few days after fading to yellow. No pain, vision loss, etc, often no significance
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3 names for same thing:
Corneal injection Corneal infection iritis |
Ciliary injection (injection = reddening)
decreased vision severe pain pus is trapped within eye but not leaking as in Conjunctivitis (infection is deeper therefore pain is greater than conjunctival infections) |
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Glaucoma
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Aching pain, cloudy cornea, dilated fixed pupil, acute increase in pressure = emergency
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Corneal Arcus
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Normal change in aging, can mean hyperlipoproteinemia in younger people
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Corneal scar
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Superficial opacity, due to old injury
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Pterygium
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Thicking of bulbar conjunctiva which grows over the outer surface of the cornea
Note: bulbar conjunctiva = covers eye palpebral conjunctiva = covers eyelid |
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Cataracts
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Opacities of the lens, visible through the pupil
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Tonic pupil
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One pupil is large and doesn’t really react to light (does not constrict)
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CN III paralysis
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Dilated pupil is fixed to light and near effort
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Horners
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Small pupil, reacts to light and near effort
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Argyll Robertson pupils
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Accommodate but do not react to light
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Myopia
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Impaired far vision
near sighted ("my is that opia?" |
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Presbyopia
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far sighted
Impaired near vision found in middle aged and older people "pressed by opia and didn't see her" |
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Hyperopia
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Impaired near vision
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Enlarged blind spot (3 causes)
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Conditions affecting optic nerve –
glaucoma, optic neuritis, papilledema |
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Episcleritis
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Local redness in eye
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Crescent sign
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Narrow angle glaucoma
(shadow surrounding the optic disc) |
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Asymetrical corneal light reflex
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Deviation from the normal ocular alignment
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Lid lag
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Hyperthyroidism (upper lid wont move down)
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INO
(internuclear ophthalmoplegia) |
CNVI paralysis
(abducen's nerve) |
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No red reflex
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Cataract, detached retina, retinoblastoma, fake eye
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Loss of spontaneous venous pulsations
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Early sign of increased ICP
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Macular degeneration
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Can have drusen, common in elderly
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3 disease that show ptosis
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Myasthenia Gravis
CNIII damage Horners syndrome |
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Seen in CNS syphilis
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Argyll Robertson Pupils
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Drusen Bodies in Macula cause
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macular degeneration
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