COA JCAHPO TEST COMPREHENSIVE TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ Primary open-angle glaucoma results in damage to what part of
the eye?
Answer: optic nerve
◉ What is the term for the inward deviation of an eye that occurs
only when the eye is covered?
Answer: esophoria
◉ What is a tissue or organ called when it is deprived of its normal
blood supply?
Answer: ischemic
◉ What is the term for an abnormal physical change that a physician
observes while examining a patient?
Answer: a sign
◉ What is a cataract?
Answer: an opacification of the crystalline lens
,◉ What is a chalazion?
Answer: a lump that develops after inflammation and infection of
the meibomian glands
◉ Diabetes mellitus is what type of disease process?
Answer: metabolic
◉ What condition has symptoms that include flashes of light in the
corner of the eye, followed by a sensation of a curtain moving across
the vision?
Answer: retinal detachment
◉ What is another name for dry eye?
Answer: keratoconjunctivitis sicca
◉ Which of the following applies to acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome (AIDS)?
Answer: Infection of the retina can be caused by the
cytomegalovirus (CMV).
Opportunistic infections of the retina are more likely when the CD4
count is less than 50.
Antiretroviral drugs can help a person with HIV live symptom-free.
,◉ The retina examination is often important in detecting which
disease?
Answer: hypertension
◉ What type of herpes simplex virus usually produces genital
infections?
Answer: type 2
◉ Dry eyes are common in which of the following diseases?
Answer: rheumatoid arthritis
◉ What is a cancer that spreads to other parts of the body called?
Answer: metastatic
◉ The eyes are considered part of which body system?
Answer: nervous
◉ Which of the following diseases is a chronic autoimmune
condition that interferes with proper nerve transmission in the
skeletal muscles?
Answer: myasthenia gravis
◉ Which of the following is a waste product of metabolism?
, Answer: carbon dioxide
◉ What is a common eye disorder associated with multiple
sclerosis?
Answer: optic neuritis
◉ What is the most common cause of exophthalmos in an adult?
Answer: thyroid eye disease
◉ The occurrence of blindness among people with diabetes mellitus
is ___ times that of the general population.
Answer: 25
◉ What is the correct transposition of the plus-cylinder prescription
+1.00 +2.00 x90 to its minus-cylinder?
Answer: +3.00 -2.00 x180
◉ This figure shows the focal point of light rays in an eye that is
which of the following?
Answer: myopic
◉ This figure illustrates which property?
Answer: light-divergent property of a concave lens
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ Primary open-angle glaucoma results in damage to what part of
the eye?
Answer: optic nerve
◉ What is the term for the inward deviation of an eye that occurs
only when the eye is covered?
Answer: esophoria
◉ What is a tissue or organ called when it is deprived of its normal
blood supply?
Answer: ischemic
◉ What is the term for an abnormal physical change that a physician
observes while examining a patient?
Answer: a sign
◉ What is a cataract?
Answer: an opacification of the crystalline lens
,◉ What is a chalazion?
Answer: a lump that develops after inflammation and infection of
the meibomian glands
◉ Diabetes mellitus is what type of disease process?
Answer: metabolic
◉ What condition has symptoms that include flashes of light in the
corner of the eye, followed by a sensation of a curtain moving across
the vision?
Answer: retinal detachment
◉ What is another name for dry eye?
Answer: keratoconjunctivitis sicca
◉ Which of the following applies to acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome (AIDS)?
Answer: Infection of the retina can be caused by the
cytomegalovirus (CMV).
Opportunistic infections of the retina are more likely when the CD4
count is less than 50.
Antiretroviral drugs can help a person with HIV live symptom-free.
,◉ The retina examination is often important in detecting which
disease?
Answer: hypertension
◉ What type of herpes simplex virus usually produces genital
infections?
Answer: type 2
◉ Dry eyes are common in which of the following diseases?
Answer: rheumatoid arthritis
◉ What is a cancer that spreads to other parts of the body called?
Answer: metastatic
◉ The eyes are considered part of which body system?
Answer: nervous
◉ Which of the following diseases is a chronic autoimmune
condition that interferes with proper nerve transmission in the
skeletal muscles?
Answer: myasthenia gravis
◉ Which of the following is a waste product of metabolism?
, Answer: carbon dioxide
◉ What is a common eye disorder associated with multiple
sclerosis?
Answer: optic neuritis
◉ What is the most common cause of exophthalmos in an adult?
Answer: thyroid eye disease
◉ The occurrence of blindness among people with diabetes mellitus
is ___ times that of the general population.
Answer: 25
◉ What is the correct transposition of the plus-cylinder prescription
+1.00 +2.00 x90 to its minus-cylinder?
Answer: +3.00 -2.00 x180
◉ This figure shows the focal point of light rays in an eye that is
which of the following?
Answer: myopic
◉ This figure illustrates which property?
Answer: light-divergent property of a concave lens
