MAP120 MIDTERM

What is used to examine the interior of the eye including the retina and intravascular vessels?

Ophthalmoscope

What is a visual examination of the external auditory canal?

Otoscopy

What is pink eye?

Conjunctivitis

What is the thin mucosal covering those lines the eyelid?

Conjunctiva

What examination position is used for patients that have breathing disorders or head trauma?

Semi-Fowler’s

If a patient is kneeling with arms placed under their head for support; thighs are perpendicular to the table and buttocks up in the air?

Knee-chest

Eye condition that caused unusual rapid eye movement?

Nystagmus

Examination technique by doctor that listens to internal body signs?

Auscultation

What is the white of the eye called?

Sclera

What structure equalizes the pressure in the middle with the outside environment?

Eustachian tube

Combining form for eardrum?

Tympan/o, myring/o

Which position requires the ma to rise the table to 45 degrees?

Semi-Fowler’s

Which position is used similar to the dorsal recumbent?

Supine

What test is used for color vision?

Ishihara test

Another word for nearsightedness?

Myopia

Prescription XYZ meds 400mg; 6 tabs tid x 16 days; How many tablets would be dispensed by the pharmacy?

288

The opening of the outer ear?

Pinna (auricle)

Which technique would you use for a patient who suffered a stroke and needs to be transported into an examination table?

Gait belt

What structure ossicle called the hammer that is attached to the tympanic membrane?

Malleus

Combining form for the membrane that lines the eyelids?

Conjunctiv/o

Combining form for inner ear?

Labyrinth/o

What does motor aphasia mean?

Broca aphasia

The name of hearing loss resulting in aging?

Presbycusis

Instrument used to examine the ear?

Otoscope

Abnormal sound such as ringing or buzzing one or both ears?

Tinnitus

Surgical incision of the eardrum to relieve pressure or fluid?

Myringotomy

Combining form for eyelid?

Blephar/o, palperbr/o

___ is a treatment for cataract?

Surgery

Doctors perform manipulation during the physical examination to gain information about?

Range of motion (ROM)

Incision of the sclera to treat presbyopia?

Anterior ciliary sclerotomy (ACS)

Examine position with patient sitting on the table with the table elevated 30 degrees?

Low Fowler’s

What structure is an ossicle called stirrup and sits next to the oval window?

Stapes

Combining form cerumen/o means?

Ear wax

Progressive loss of transparency of the lens of the eye is called?

Cataracts

Procedures that use a variety of pitches and volumes to check hearing?

Audiometry test

What abbreviation means 3 times a day?

tid

What does OM stand for?

Every morning

Combining form for the hard outer covering of the eye?

Corne/o, kerat/o

Order: ABC 230 mg Stock: ABC 600mg/3mL. How many mL’s will you give

1.2

Audi/o and acous/o refers to what?

Hearing

Word component that refers to speech?

Phas/o

Test to measure intraocular pressure?

Tonometry

38.5 c = _______

101.3

Blockage of external auditory canal with earwax?

Impacted cerumen

Tapping or striking the body to create sounds is?

Percussion

What structure divides the outer ear/ middle ear and protects from foreign objects?

Tympanic membrane

What is the dividing line between external and middle ear?

Tympanic membrane

What healthcare professional measures visions and prescribes corrective lenses?

Optometrist

T/F: The Boinski reflex in infants moves the little toe towards the top surface of the toes?

False

What is the ma responsibility when preparing the patient for a physical exam?

All of the above

What structure controls how much light enters the eye?

Iris

What positions are used to exam the front of the body which is the heart and breast?

Supine

Progressive loss of transparency of the lens of the eye is called?

Cataracts

Combining form for the structure that equalizes ear pressure between the middle ear and external hemp?

Salping/o

Name of the small bone in the middle of the ears?

Ossicles

The use of touch during the physical examination to assess other size and location of certain body parts?

Palpation

Chronic condition of the inner ear caused by vertigo, hearing loss and tinnitus?

Ménière disease

What is the transparent circle of the front center of the eye?

Cornea

Eye Chart used to check distance of vision?

Snellen

Perforation of the eardrum?

Tympanic membrane perforation

Turning inward of the eyelid toward the eye is what?

Entropion

How do we use to auscultate the lungs and heart?

Stethoscope

What position would you use for the abdomen, rectal, vagina, and perineal exam?

Dorsal recumbent

What instrument is used to strike the tendons of the knee?

Reflex (percussion) hammer

Read the following label and identify the brand name?

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What schedule of controlled substances does not allow refills?

Schedule II

A tool to measure central vision?

Amsler grid

An examination of the inner eye using an ophthalmoscope?

Ophthalmology

What is called slackening of the skin of the eyelid?

Blepharoptosis

Medical term for an earache

Otalgia

Inflammation of the middle ear?

Otitis media

Routine eye exam of the layers of the eye?

Fundus examination

Which structure bends the light as it enters the eye?

Cornea

Dizziness, abnormal sensation of movement when there is none?

Vertigo

The corner of the eye near the nose?

Inner canthus

Discharge of the ear?

Otorrhea

Farsightedness is called by?

Hyperopia

The inner ear that is responsible for the sense of hearing?

Cochlea

Drooping of the upper eyelid?

Blepharoptosis

Combining form for the area on which light rays focus?

Retina

Part of the inner ear that is responsible for the sense of hearing?

Cochlea

Which position is used for gynecological exams?

Lithotomy

Reattachment of the retina with a cryoprobe, with the use of a silicon sponge is called?

Cryopexy

What is the color portion of the eye called?

Iris

An inherited visual disorder with the complete absence of color?

Achromatopsia

The eyeball is located in a bony structure called?

Orbit

Another term for double vision?

Diplopia

What is pain in the ear called?

Otalgia

What is called “loss of hearing” resulting from the aging process?

Presbycusis

Discharge from the external auditory canal?

Otorrhea

When preparing a patient for a physical, the MA is responsible for all the following EXCEPT?

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Inflammation of the inner ear?

Otitis interna (labyrinthitis)

Choose the correct term for the white of the eye?

Sclera

9g = ______ mg?

9000

Damage of the retina because of diabetes is called?

Diabetic retinopathy

Term used for the process of measuring?

Mensuration

Infection of the sebaceous glands of the eyelash/stye is called?

Hordeolum

What is the name of the duct that carries tears to the nasal cavity?

Nasolacrimal duct

Inflammation of the eyelid?

Blepharitis

What position is appropriate for having a breast exam?

Supine