EXAM 2025
QUESTIONThe outer fibrous layer of the eye includes the: - answer-Sclera and cornea
QUESTIONWhat portion of the eye supplies blood supply to the other layers of the eye?
- answer-Choroid (the middle layer)
QUESTIONTrue or false: Cones operate best in dim light - answer-False
QUESTIONTrue or false: The more numerous type of photoreceptors are rods? -
answer-True
QUESTIONWhat is the correct order of how light passes through the eye? - answer-
Cornea, aqueous humor, lens, retina
QUESTIONA patient had CVA in the area indicated by the red X in the figure, below.
What type of blindness is the patients most likely to incur. Explain - answer-Bilateral
left visual field blindness. The right optic tract is damaged. All the sensory information
from the left visual fields travels together after the optic chiasm to the right side of the
brain.
What sense does not have specialized sense organs? - answer-Touch
QUESTIONWhat senses contain specialized receptor cells via specialized somatic and
visceral
afferents? - answer-A&C (Smell and Equilibrium)
, QUESTIONThe posterior portion of the outer fibrous layer of the eye is called - answer-
Sclera
QUESTIONA patient has a brain tumor in the area indicated by the red x in the figure,
below. What type of blindness is the patient most likely to incur? Explain your
reasoning. - answer-Left eye blindness because there is damage to the left optic
nerve. Information from the left visual field has not yet crossed at the optic chiasm.
Both peripheral and nasal fields of the left eye would be missing.
QUESTIONA patient is found to have blindness of the right visual field of both eyes.
What part of the vision pathway was most likely damaged? Explain your answer. -
answer-Left LGN. All the sensory information from the right visual fields travels
together after the optic chiasm to the left side of the brain.
QUESTIONA patient is found to have blindness in the right eye. What part of the vision
pathway was most likely damaged. Explain your response. - answer-Right Optic nerve.
Information from the right visual field has not yet crosses at the optic chiasm. Both
peripheral and nasal fields of the right eye would be missing.
QUESTIONT or F. The lateral fibers of the optic nerves cross at the optic chiasm. -
answer-False
QUESTIONTrue or False. All sensory information from the optic nerves cross at the
optic chiasm. - answer-False
QUESTIONThe ________ is controlled by the trochlear nerve. - answer-Superior Oblique
QUESTIONThe____ is controlled by the abducens nerve. - answer-Lateral Rectus