Ch 44 Assessing and Caring for Clients with Eye
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1. What is the name of the outer coat ANS: A
of the eyeball composed posteriorly The eye is the sensory receptor of the visual
of the sclera and anteriorly of the system that transduces light from the environment
transparent cornea? into electrical impulses, which the optic nerve then
a. fibrous tunic transmits to the brain to be interpreted as vision.
b. nervous tunic The fibrous tunic is the outer coat of the eyeball
c. orbital tunic composed posteriorly of the sclera and anteriorly
d. vascular tunic of the transparent cornea.
2. The nurse is caring for an infant ANS: B
with brown eyes and recalls that The portion of the vascular tunic that contains the
which portion of the vascular tunic is pigment responsible for the color of the eye is the
responsible for the color of the eye? iris.
a. cornea
b. iris
c. retina
d. sclera
3. The innermost "tunic" of the eye is ANS: B
also called the: The innermost tunic of the eye is the retina which
a. sclera translates light waves into neural impulses.
b. retina
c. orbit
d. iris
, 4. Which receptors within the ANS: A
nervous tunic allow color vision? The two types of receptors are rods, for vision in
a. cones dim light, and cones, for daytime or color vision.
b. fovea
c. macula lutea
d. rods
5. The nurse notes that which type of ANS: D
receptor increases in density toward The two types of receptors are: rods for vision in
the periphery of the retina and dim light, and cones for daytime or color vision.
allows vision in dim light?
a. cones
b. fovea
c. macula lutea
d. rods
6. The nurse is aware that the proper ANS: C
name of the "blind spot," which lacks The optic disk, or "blind spot," lacks
photoreceptors and does not detect photoreceptors and does not detect light focused
light focused on it, is the: on it.
a. fovea
b. macula lutea
c. optic disk
d. retina
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Terms in this set (30)
1. What is the name of the outer coat ANS: A
of the eyeball composed posteriorly The eye is the sensory receptor of the visual
of the sclera and anteriorly of the system that transduces light from the environment
transparent cornea? into electrical impulses, which the optic nerve then
a. fibrous tunic transmits to the brain to be interpreted as vision.
b. nervous tunic The fibrous tunic is the outer coat of the eyeball
c. orbital tunic composed posteriorly of the sclera and anteriorly
d. vascular tunic of the transparent cornea.
2. The nurse is caring for an infant ANS: B
with brown eyes and recalls that The portion of the vascular tunic that contains the
which portion of the vascular tunic is pigment responsible for the color of the eye is the
responsible for the color of the eye? iris.
a. cornea
b. iris
c. retina
d. sclera
3. The innermost "tunic" of the eye is ANS: B
also called the: The innermost tunic of the eye is the retina which
a. sclera translates light waves into neural impulses.
b. retina
c. orbit
d. iris
, 4. Which receptors within the ANS: A
nervous tunic allow color vision? The two types of receptors are rods, for vision in
a. cones dim light, and cones, for daytime or color vision.
b. fovea
c. macula lutea
d. rods
5. The nurse notes that which type of ANS: D
receptor increases in density toward The two types of receptors are: rods for vision in
the periphery of the retina and dim light, and cones for daytime or color vision.
allows vision in dim light?
a. cones
b. fovea
c. macula lutea
d. rods
6. The nurse is aware that the proper ANS: C
name of the "blind spot," which lacks The optic disk, or "blind spot," lacks
photoreceptors and does not detect photoreceptors and does not detect light focused
light focused on it, is the: on it.
a. fovea
b. macula lutea
c. optic disk
d. retina
