ABO ADVANCED HIGH-YIELD TOPICS SUMMARY Questions
with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Where do images come to focus for Hyperopia?
Answer: BEHIND the retina
Question 2: What is Hyperopia also referred to?
Answer: Farsighted or Long Sight
Question 3: Curvature Hyperopia
Answer: Due to the Cornea or Crystalline Lens being too flat for the axial length of the eye
Question 4: Chart Abbreviations: VA
Answer: Visual Acuity
Question 5: Chart Abbreviations: Cc
Answer: With Correction
Question 6: Chart Abbreviations: Sc
Answer: Without Correction
Question 7: Chart Abbreviations: N
Answer: Near
Question 8: Chart Abbreviations: D
Answer: Distance
Question 9: Chart Abbreviations: PH
Answer: Pinhole
Question 10: Chart Abbreviations: J
Answer: Jaeger Notation
Question 11: Each letter on an acuity chart subtends a _____ angle to the eye at a given distance.
Answer: 5 Minute Angle
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,Question 12: If a patient is NLP or No Light Perception they are?
Answer: Totally blind
Question 13: What is the purpose of Keratometry?
Answer: To assess the curvature and toricity of the cornea
Question 14: If the axis of the flattest meridian is 180 +/- 30 degrees, it is considered __________?
Answer: With the Rule
Question 15: If the axis of the flattest meridian is 90 +/- 30 degrees, it is considered __________?
Answer: Against the Rule
Question 16: If the axis is between 30 & 60 or 120 & 150, it is considered __________?
Answer: Oblique
Question 17: What is the purpose of retinoscopy?
Answer: Objectively determine the refractive status of the patients eyes
Question 18: If the operator is 66cm away from the patient, what would be the compensation in
Diopters?
Answer: 100/66 = +1.50D
Question 19: Jackson Cross Cylinder (JCC) Test
Answer: Refine both cylinder and axis and power.
Question 20: Mydriatic Drops act on the _____ causing the pupil to dilate.
Answer: Iris muscles
Question 21: Cycloplegic drops work on the _____ causing it to dilate and they paralyze the ciliary
muscle to inhibit ________?
Answer: Pupil, accommodation
Question 22: Miotics are used to stimulate the ___________ of the iris causing it to ______?
Answer: Sphincter Muscle, constrict
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, Question 23: Topical anesthetic are also used whe the doctor performs ______ or ______?
Answer: Surgery, removed foreign bodies
Question 24: What is the purpose of Cycloplegic refraction?
Answer: Measure refractive error in the absence of accommodation
Question 25: What is the Maddox Rod?
Answer: Either red or clear parallel glass rods that act as a cylinder to dissociate the eyes and helps
detecting phoria and tropia
Question 26: Diplopia is?
Answer: Double vision
Question 27: What is Tonicity?
Answer: The state of slight contraction of all ocular muscles while at rest in order to hold eye in fixed
position
Question 28: Fusion is?
Answer: Integration of images received by both eyes in the brain into a single image
Question 29: Stereopsis is?
Answer: A higher quality of binocular vision
Question 30: What is the Stereo Test?
Answer: Gives some sense of the depth perception of pt
Question 31: Strabismus
Answer: Crossed eyes, cannot align eyes simultaneously under normal conditions
Question 32: Amblyopia
Answer: Term for loss of vision in one or both eyes
Question 33: Eso-
Answer: Turning in
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with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Where do images come to focus for Hyperopia?
Answer: BEHIND the retina
Question 2: What is Hyperopia also referred to?
Answer: Farsighted or Long Sight
Question 3: Curvature Hyperopia
Answer: Due to the Cornea or Crystalline Lens being too flat for the axial length of the eye
Question 4: Chart Abbreviations: VA
Answer: Visual Acuity
Question 5: Chart Abbreviations: Cc
Answer: With Correction
Question 6: Chart Abbreviations: Sc
Answer: Without Correction
Question 7: Chart Abbreviations: N
Answer: Near
Question 8: Chart Abbreviations: D
Answer: Distance
Question 9: Chart Abbreviations: PH
Answer: Pinhole
Question 10: Chart Abbreviations: J
Answer: Jaeger Notation
Question 11: Each letter on an acuity chart subtends a _____ angle to the eye at a given distance.
Answer: 5 Minute Angle
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,Question 12: If a patient is NLP or No Light Perception they are?
Answer: Totally blind
Question 13: What is the purpose of Keratometry?
Answer: To assess the curvature and toricity of the cornea
Question 14: If the axis of the flattest meridian is 180 +/- 30 degrees, it is considered __________?
Answer: With the Rule
Question 15: If the axis of the flattest meridian is 90 +/- 30 degrees, it is considered __________?
Answer: Against the Rule
Question 16: If the axis is between 30 & 60 or 120 & 150, it is considered __________?
Answer: Oblique
Question 17: What is the purpose of retinoscopy?
Answer: Objectively determine the refractive status of the patients eyes
Question 18: If the operator is 66cm away from the patient, what would be the compensation in
Diopters?
Answer: 100/66 = +1.50D
Question 19: Jackson Cross Cylinder (JCC) Test
Answer: Refine both cylinder and axis and power.
Question 20: Mydriatic Drops act on the _____ causing the pupil to dilate.
Answer: Iris muscles
Question 21: Cycloplegic drops work on the _____ causing it to dilate and they paralyze the ciliary
muscle to inhibit ________?
Answer: Pupil, accommodation
Question 22: Miotics are used to stimulate the ___________ of the iris causing it to ______?
Answer: Sphincter Muscle, constrict
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, Question 23: Topical anesthetic are also used whe the doctor performs ______ or ______?
Answer: Surgery, removed foreign bodies
Question 24: What is the purpose of Cycloplegic refraction?
Answer: Measure refractive error in the absence of accommodation
Question 25: What is the Maddox Rod?
Answer: Either red or clear parallel glass rods that act as a cylinder to dissociate the eyes and helps
detecting phoria and tropia
Question 26: Diplopia is?
Answer: Double vision
Question 27: What is Tonicity?
Answer: The state of slight contraction of all ocular muscles while at rest in order to hold eye in fixed
position
Question 28: Fusion is?
Answer: Integration of images received by both eyes in the brain into a single image
Question 29: Stereopsis is?
Answer: A higher quality of binocular vision
Question 30: What is the Stereo Test?
Answer: Gives some sense of the depth perception of pt
Question 31: Strabismus
Answer: Crossed eyes, cannot align eyes simultaneously under normal conditions
Question 32: Amblyopia
Answer: Term for loss of vision in one or both eyes
Question 33: Eso-
Answer: Turning in
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