OPHTHALMIC MEDICAL ASSISTING UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE

OPHTHALMIC MEDICAL ASSISTING
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE

●● Adnexa
Answer: surrounding structures of the eye, including: orbit, muscles,
eyelid, and lacrimal system


●● 6 Extra Ocular Muscles
Answer: Medial Rectus, Lateral Rectus, Superior Oblique, Inferior
Oblique, Superior Rectus, Inferior Rectus


●● Medial Rectus
Answer: turns eye in towards nose = adduction


●● Lateral Rectus
Answer: turns eye out towards temple = abduction


●● Superior Oblique
Answer: twists eye down and in = incyclotorsion

,●● Inferior Oblique
Answer: twists eye up and out = excyclotorsion


●● Superior Rectus
Answer: turns eye up = secondarily incyclotorsion or elevation


●● Inferior Rectus
Answer: turns eye down = secondarily excyclotorsion or depression


●● Axial length
Answer: distance from front to back of the eye (23-25mm)


●● Cilia
Answer: Eyelashes


●● Medial canthus
Answer: inner corner of the eye


●● Lateral canthus
Answer: outer corner of the eye


●● Tarsus or tarsal plate

, Answer: firm structure of the lids


●● Orbicularis oculi
Answer: muscle that closes the eye when it contracts


●● Levator Palpebrae
Answer: muscle that raises the upper lid when it contracts


●● Bulbar conjunctiva
Answer: the part of the conj that is on the eyeball


●● Palpebral conjunctiva
Answer: the part of the conj that is on the eyelids


●● Canaliculus
Answer: the tube that attaches the punctum to the lacrimal sac


●● The 5 corneal layers
Answer: epithelium, bowman's membrane, stroma, descemet's
membrane, endothelium (from front to back -- stroma is by far the
thickest, then epi)


●● Aqueous Humor