Exam 12: Peripheral Nervous System: Special Sense Organs

Match the terms with their appropriate category. -Auricular

Which surgical procedure is performed to correct ptosis?

Which type of receptor detects sound?

Some of the medical terms are spelled incorrectly. Correctly spell all misspelled words. If correct, write Correct as the answer. -Keratometer ____________________

What does vertigo mean?

A 4-year-old boy complains at preschool that he cannot tell the difference between colors.What is the term for a profound inability to see color?

Which term means a yellowish,brown waxy substance that lubricates and protects the ear?

A 7-year-old girl complains of an earache.What is the term for this?

Some of the medical terms are spelled incorrectly. Correctly spell all misspelled words. If correct, write Correct as the answer. -Optomitrist ____________________

A young patient requires an eye patch because of reduced vision in one eye that cannot be corrected by glasses.What is this condition called?

A 9-year-old girl complains that she cannot see the chalkboard at school.She is able to read the work at her desk.What is the term for this irregularity in vision?

What does chrom(o)mean?

What does the term audiometer mean?

What is the term for nerve endings that detect chemicals?

A test for visual acuity uses letters and numbers or symbols arranged in decreasing size from top to bottom.Which of the following is used in the test just described?

Match the terms with their appropriate category. -Ceruminolytics

Which test examines the layers of the eye with a bright light,usually after dilation of the pupils?

A 34-year-old woman has a disorder of the left eye that presents as an uneven focusing of the image,which results from distortion of the curvature of the lens or cornea.What is this disorder called?

Which term means inflammation of the eyelid?

What are nerve endings that detect changes in temperature called?