Certified Paraoptometric Test Questions
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The ______ is a clear, cellophane-like tissue that lines the inside surface of the eyelids
✔✔Bulbar conjunctiva & Palpebral conjunctiva
The ______ mus
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Certified Paraoptometric Test Questions
and Answers 100% Verified
The ______ is a clear, cellophane-like tissue that lines the inside surface of the eyelids
✔✔Bulbar conjunctiva & Palpebral conjunctiva
The ______ muscle has direct control over the focusing ability of the eye ✔✔Ciliary
The choroid consists primarily of blood vessels that nourish the: ✔✔Crystalline Lens
The _________ is the area located inside the eye, behind the iris, and in front of the lens
✔✔Posterior Chamber
The area of the macula where visual acuity is the sharpest and is used for daytime and color
vision is called the: ✔✔Fovea centralis
The thick jelly-like substance that fills the eyeball behind the lens is called the: ✔✔Vitreous
humor
Each eye has how many muscles to assist in ocular movement? ✔✔Six
The area of the retina responsible for seeing detail is the: ✔✔Macula
The area that is located behind the cornea and in front of the iris is the: ✔✔Anterior Chamber
Which of the following is the ability of the eye to focus objects at varying distances?
✔✔Accommodation
What is the most commonly used ophthalmic dye which is available in liquid form or
impregnated on dry, paper filter strips? ✔✔Sodium Fluorescein
What is the therapeutic drug used to reduce inflammation? ✔✔Corticosteroids
The optic nerve is damaged from increased intraocular pressure ✔✔Glaucoma
These are caused by mechanical simulation of nerves in the retina ✔✔Flashes
Thickening of the connective tissue on the sides of the cornea, usually in the 3 & 9 o' clock
positions ✔✔Pinguecula
Commonly known as pink eye ✔✔Conjunctivitis
Small blood vessel rupture between the sclera and conjunctiva ✔✔Subconjunctivalhemorrhage
Inflammation of the eyelids ✔✔Blepharitis
Caused by debris in the tears and in the fluid inside the eye ✔✔Floaters
The retina pulls away from the rest of the eyeball ✔✔Retinal detachment
The pores in the eyelid become blocked and inflamed, commonly called a stye ✔✔Hordeolum
This causes fragile blood vessels on the retina to leak or break ✔✔Diabetic Retionopathy
Advancing age causes the central area of vision to break down ✔✔Macular Degeneration
A small lump on the eyelid ✔✔Chalazion
The cornea changes to an irregular cone shape ✔✔Keratonconus
Is the term for the condition in which an image will focus on the back of the retina when
accommodation is relaxed. These patients will not require any corrective prescription lenses
✔✔Emmetropia
Which of the following types of ametropia occurs when an image is focused in front of the retina
and is usually caused by the eye being too long? ✔✔Myopia
The ability of the eyes to focus objects from distance to near is called? ✔✔Accommodation
Which of the following types of lenses corrects hyperopria? ✔✔Plus
Nearsightedness is to myopia, as farsightness is to: ✔✔Hyperopia
The retinoscope will indicated the patient's refractive error when ✔✔All motion in every
direction is stopped when the light is moved across the pupil
Alternating esotropia is a condition in which ✔✔The patient fixates with only one eye while the
other eye turns in
Visual field testing determines ✔✔the area of the space visible to the eye
Which of the following tests is used to measure the visual field? ✔✔Perimetry
Which of the following instruments allows close examination of the lids and lashes?
✔✔Biomicroscope
In order for first time patients to adapt to their contact lenses, a wearing schedule is given to
allow ✔✔a gradual buildup of wearing time
The most common reason patients stop wearing contact lenses is? ✔✔Non-compliance
A contact lens prescription and spectacle prescription may differ because ✔✔Of the vertex
distance between the contact lens and the spectacle lens
The edge thickness of a contact lens ✔✔Is an important factor in the comfort of the lens
When writing up a contact lens order for a soft lens, it is necessary to specify: ✔✔Lens brand or
type, the base curve, overall diameter, and the lens power
The diastolic pressure reflects ✔✔The amount of force when the heart is at rest
What is an eye in which the image is not focused at one point but rather two points?
✔✔Astigmatism
What is the ability of the eyes to focus objects from distance to near called? ✔✔Accommodation
What is with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye focused directly on the retina
called? ✔✔Emmetropia
What with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye focused before the retina resulting in
blurry distant vision called? ✔✔Hyperopia
What is with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye focused before the retina resulting
in blurry distant vision called? ✔✔Myopia
What is the loss of ability to see clearly at near called? ✔✔Presbyopia
What is a nonspecific term that means the patient has a refractive condition called?
✔✔Ametropia
A more complete look at the back of the eye. Often done as part of a complete eye exam
✔✔Pupil dialation
The technical term for pressure inside of the eye is known as ✔✔Intraocular pressure
The specific instrument used to measure the pressure inside the eye is called ✔✔Goldman
tonometer
The test used to measure pressure inside the eye is ✔✔Tonometry
Conditions that affect the whole body are called? ✔✔systemic diseases
An instrument that is worn on the examiners head and used to view the back of the eye is called
✔✔Binocular indirect ophthalmoscope
An instrument that measures the curvature of the cornea is called ✔✔Keratometer or
ophthalmometer
A test that does not require responses from the patient is called ✔✔Objective
The instrument that is used for manual refracting is called a ✔✔Phoropter
The part of the eye exam that serves as a guide for the tests to be performed during the office
visit is called ✔✔Case history
An instrument that can obtain an estimate of the patient's prescription without the patient's
response is called a ✔✔Retinoscope
The term that represents how well the two eyes work together is known as ✔✔Binocular vision
An instrument that gives the examiner a magnified view of the structures of the eye-particularly
the front structures of the eye- is called a ✔✔Biomicroscope or slit lamp
The area in space that is visible to the eye is called ✔✔Visual field
The letters that are often the most used to measure visual acuity are called ✔✔Snellen
What is the prescription strength of the lens called? ✔✔Lens power
What is the primary curve on the backside of the lens called? ✔✔Base curve radius
What are additional curves on the lens that surrounds the optical zone called? ✔✔Pheriphal
curves
What is the center area of the lens that provides optical correction for the patients vision
✔✔Optical zone
What is the measurement from edge to edge of the lens at the widest point called? ✔✔Overall
diameter
these lenses are also called convex lenses. They are thick in the center and thin on the edges.
Light rays passing through these lenses will be converged ✔✔Plus
these lenses are thin in the center and thick on the edges. Objects viewed through these lenses
will appear smaller or minified. Light rays passing through these lenses will be diverged
✔✔Minus
What instrument is used to verify the spectacle prescription? ✔✔Lensometer
Which of the following terms is used to designate a lens without power? ✔✔Plano
Which of the following lenses has the same power in all areas of the lens and is used to treat
myopia or hyperopia? ✔✔Spherical
Which of the following lens materials is the most shatter-resistant? ✔✔Polycarbonate
Which type of lens corrects vision at three distances? ✔✔Trifocal
The part of the frame that surrounds each lens, holding the lens in place within the frame is the
✔✔Eyewire
The part of the frame that extends from the frame front, back, and alongside the head, and over
the ear of the wearer is ✔✔Temple
The widest horizontal dimension of the lens opening of a frame is the ✔✔A Dimension
A picture representation of the pressure points between the eyeglass frame and the patients head
is the ✔✔Fitting triangle
Which of the following tilts results when a pair of spectacles is tilted so that the bottom of the
lenses is closer to the face than the top? ✔✔Pantoscopic
The largest diameter through the lens is called the ✔✔Effective diameter
A lens that converges parallel light is called ✔✔Convex (+)
The unit of measure for ophthalmic lenses is ✔✔diopter
This lens diverges parallel light ✔✔Concave (-)
A lens that displaces light rather than focuses light is called ✔✔Prism
A lens that has one curve is called a ✔✔spherical
The point of a prism is called the ✔✔apex
A lens where one part has no power and 90 degrees away there is power is called a ✔✔plcylinder
A lens used to treat myopia/hyperopia and astigmatism is called a ✔✔sph/cylindrical
The middle value of a lens prescription is called the ✔✔cylindrical
The position of the cylinder in the lens is called the ✔✔axis
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