Word Building | Ophthalmology | Otolaryngology | Anatomy & Physiology | Diseases |
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What is eyelid
Blephar/o-
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Superior Rectus
This muscle turns the eye upward
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Mastoid process
Contains tiny cavities filled with air
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moisten the eyes and fight of bacterial infection
Function of tears
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Macular Degeneration
It can be a dry or wet type
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Tympanic Membrane
Myring/o-
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Fundus
Part of the eye farthest from the pupil
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Tympanic membrane
Another name for eardrum
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The stapes
Transmits a mechanical motion to the oval window
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An oral yeast-like infection
Thrush
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gloss/o- & lingu/o-
Name two combining forms that mean tongue
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Tough, fibrous, connective tissue that forms a continuous outer layer around the eye.
Sclera
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Malleus, incus, and stapes
ossicles
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Epiglottis
Keeps food from entering the lungs
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Tests the reactivity of the pupils to light
Pupillary Response
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Watery Substance
aque/o-
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Ciliary body
What produces the aqueous humor
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Labyrinth
All the structures of the inner ear are known as
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rods
Sensitive in all levels of light and detect black and white, but not color
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Strabismus
When one or both eyes deviate medially
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Small area or spot
Macul/o-
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Miosis
Muscles in the iris contract to constrict and decrease the diameter of the pupil.
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Nasal Septum
Vertical wall of cartilage that divides the nasal cavity into right and left sides
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Macula
Cones are concentrated in the...
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Involuntary motion of the eye, particularly when looking to the side
Nystagmus
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