Blephar/o
Combining form meaning eyelid.
Medical Terminology
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Combining form meaning eyelid.
Combining form meaning eye.
Combining form meaning eye.
Combining form meaning ear.
Tough outer white covering of the eyeball.
The colored portion of the eye surrounding the pupil.
Transparent fibrous covering over the front of the eyeball that protects the eye.
The central dark opening of the eye.
Abbreviation: Pupils Equal, Round, and Reactive to Light and Accommodation.
Structure behind the pupil that refracts (bends) light to focus it on the retina.
Central part of the retina. Area for central vision.
Light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye where images are focused.
Farsightedness.
Nearsightedness.
Age-related impairment in near vision.
Reduced vision from poor visual development ("lazy eye").
Visual disturbance resulting from an irregular cornea shape.
Ringing sensation in the ears.
Suffix referring to hearing.
Age-related hearing impairment.
Prefix meaning ear.
Instrument for examining the ears. Oto- = ear, -scope = instrument for viewing.
Medical term for ear wax. Produced by glands in the ear canal.
One of the three ossicles (small bones) of the middle ear.
One of the three ossicles (small bones) of the middle ear.
One of the three ossicles (small bones) of the middle ear.
Structure in the cochlea containing hearing-sensitive receptors.
Spiral, coiled tube in the inner ear that contains the organ of Corti.
Chamber in the inner ear connecting the cochlea and semicircular canals. Responsible for balance.
Structures in the inner ear involved in balance.
The fleshy external part of the outer ear.
Membrane separating the outer ear from the middle ear.
Hardening.
Hardening of the ossicles in the ear. Oto- = ear, sclerosis = hardening.
Combining form meaning to hear.
Suffix meaning to measure.
Test to measure the sense of hearing.
Feeling of being off balance or that the environment is spinning.
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