CERTIFIED PARAOPTOMETRIC 2026 REVISION
NOTES AND STRUCTURED OPTOMETRY
ASSISTANT OVERVIEW GUIDE
◉ What is with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye
focused before the retina resulting in blurry distant vision called?
Answer: Myopia
◉ Chrom (root word) Answer: Color
◉ Opthalmic medical personnel cannot do what? Answer: Offer
medical diagnosis
◉ The term that represents how well the two eyes work together is
known as ______. Answer: Binocular vision
◉ Ab- Answer: Away
◉ An instrument that gives the examiner a magnified view of the
structures of the eye - particularly the front structures of the eye - is
called a/an ______. Answer: Biomicroscope
,◉ What is the condition called that is caused by advancing age which
causes the central area of vision to break down? Answer: Macular
degeneration
◉ The ability of the eyes to focus on objects from distance to near is
called ______. Answer: Accommodation
◉ Ex- Answer: Away from, out of
◉ The area of the macula where visual acuity is the sharpest and is
used for daytime and color vision is called the _____. Answer: Fovea
centralis
◉ What is the measurement from edge to edge of the lens at the
widest point called? Answer: Overall diameter
◉ Ad- Answer: to, toward
◉ A person who collects patient data, administers tests of the
patients visual capabilities, and assists in office management would
be best described as a/an ______. Answer: Paraoptemetric
◉ What is the loss of ability to see clearly at near called? Answer:
Presbyopia
, ◉ Which instrument allows close examination of the lids and lashes?
Answer: Biomicroscope
◉ The area in space that is visible to the eye is called _______. Answer:
Visual field
◉ Blephar (root word) Answer: Eyelid
◉ The letters that are often the most used to measure visual acuity
are called _____ letters. Answer: Snellen
◉ The cornea changes to an irregular cone shape. Answer:
Keratoconus
◉ Alternating esotropia is a condition in which _____. Answer: The
patient fixates with only one eye while the other eye turns in.
◉ The thick jelly-like substance that fills the eyeball behind the lens
is called the ______. Answer: Vitreous humor
◉ What is a nonspecific term that means the patient has a refractive
condition called? Answer: Ametropia
NOTES AND STRUCTURED OPTOMETRY
ASSISTANT OVERVIEW GUIDE
◉ What is with accommodation relaxed and the image in the eye
focused before the retina resulting in blurry distant vision called?
Answer: Myopia
◉ Chrom (root word) Answer: Color
◉ Opthalmic medical personnel cannot do what? Answer: Offer
medical diagnosis
◉ The term that represents how well the two eyes work together is
known as ______. Answer: Binocular vision
◉ Ab- Answer: Away
◉ An instrument that gives the examiner a magnified view of the
structures of the eye - particularly the front structures of the eye - is
called a/an ______. Answer: Biomicroscope
,◉ What is the condition called that is caused by advancing age which
causes the central area of vision to break down? Answer: Macular
degeneration
◉ The ability of the eyes to focus on objects from distance to near is
called ______. Answer: Accommodation
◉ Ex- Answer: Away from, out of
◉ The area of the macula where visual acuity is the sharpest and is
used for daytime and color vision is called the _____. Answer: Fovea
centralis
◉ What is the measurement from edge to edge of the lens at the
widest point called? Answer: Overall diameter
◉ Ad- Answer: to, toward
◉ A person who collects patient data, administers tests of the
patients visual capabilities, and assists in office management would
be best described as a/an ______. Answer: Paraoptemetric
◉ What is the loss of ability to see clearly at near called? Answer:
Presbyopia
, ◉ Which instrument allows close examination of the lids and lashes?
Answer: Biomicroscope
◉ The area in space that is visible to the eye is called _______. Answer:
Visual field
◉ Blephar (root word) Answer: Eyelid
◉ The letters that are often the most used to measure visual acuity
are called _____ letters. Answer: Snellen
◉ The cornea changes to an irregular cone shape. Answer:
Keratoconus
◉ Alternating esotropia is a condition in which _____. Answer: The
patient fixates with only one eye while the other eye turns in.
◉ The thick jelly-like substance that fills the eyeball behind the lens
is called the ______. Answer: Vitreous humor
◉ What is a nonspecific term that means the patient has a refractive
condition called? Answer: Ametropia
