Medical Terminology Ch 16

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 structures 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 of the retinal cones and rods that absorbs light and initiates the visual process

Hint 8

Also called visual pigment

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; also called membrane layer

Front 11

Ambly/o

Back 11

Dull, dim

Front 12

-Opia

Back 12

Vision

Front 13

Aque/o

Back 13

Water

Front 14

Blephar/o

Back 14

Eyelid

Front 15

Choroid/o

Back 15

Choroid

Front 16

Conjunctiv/o

Back 16

Conjuctiva

Front 17

Core/o

Back 17

Pupil

Front 18

Pupill/o

Back 18

Pupil

Front 19

Corne/o

Back 19

Cornea

Front 20

Cycl/o

Back 20

Clay body of the eye; circular; cycle

Front 21

Dacry/o

Back 21

Tear; lacrimal apparatus (duct, sac, gland)

Front 22

Lacrim/o

Back 22

Tear; lacrimal apparatus (duct, sac, gland)

Front 23

Dacryocyst/o

Back 23

Lacrimal sac

Front 24

Glauc/o

Back 24

Gray

Front 25

Goni/o

Back 25

Angle

Front 26

Irid/o

Back 26

Iris

Front 27

Kerat/o

Back 27

Horny tissue; hard; cornea

Front 28

Ocul/o

Back 28

Eye

Front 29

Ophthalm/o

Back 29

Eye

Front 30

Opt/o

Back 30

Eye, vision

Front 31

Optic/o

Back 31

Eye, vision

Front 32

Phac/o

Back 32

Lens

Front 33

Phot/o

Back 33

Light

Front 34

Presby/o

Back 34

Old age

Front 35

Retin/o

Back 35

Retina

Front 36

Scler/o

Back 36

Hardening; sclera (white of eye)

Front 37

Scot/o

Back 37

Darkness

Front 38

Vitr/o

Back 38

Vitreous body (of the eye)

Front 39

Audi/o

Back 39

Hearing

Front 40

Labarinth/o

Back 40

Labarinth (inner ear)

Front 41

Mastoid/o

Back 41

Mastoid process

Front 42

Ot/o

Back 42

Ear

Front 43

Salping/o

Back 43

Rubes (usually fallopian or eustachian-auditory- tubes)

Front 44

Staped/o

Back 44

Stapes

Front 45

Myring/o

Back 45

Tympanic membrane (eardrum)

Front 46

Tympan/o

Back 46

Tympanic membrane (eardrum)

Front 47

-acusia

Back 47

Hearing

Front 48

-cusis

Back 48

Hearing

Front 49

-opia

Back 49

Vision

Front 50

-opsia

Back 50

Vision

Front 51

-tropia

Back 51

Turning

Front 52

Exo-

Back 52

Outside, outward

Front 53

Hyper-

Back 53

Excessive, above normal