Ch 17 Med Term

The soft, jelly-like material behind the lens of the eye:

• aqueous humor

• vitreous humor

• macula

• sclera

The tough, white outer coat of the eyeball:

• sclera

• macula

• retina

• cornea

The light-sensitive, nerve cell layer of the eye that contains rods and cones:

• cornea

• retina

• sclera

• lens

The region at the back of the eye where the optic nerve meets the retina; "blind spot":

• optic nerve

• optic chiasm

• optic disc

• choroid

Carries impulses from the retina to the brain (cerebral cortex):

• ciliary body

• optic disc

• optic chiasm

• optic nerve

The channel that leads from the middle ear to the nasopharynx; eustachian tube:

• auditory nerve fiber

• auditory tube

• auditory canal

• auditory meatus

The term for earwax:

• cerumen

• cochlea

• auricle

• incus

The third ossicle of the middle ear:

• auricle

• incus

• malleus

• stapes

The flap of the ear or pinna:

• labyrinth

• malleus

• auricle

• cochlea

The combining form that means eyelid:

• corne/o

• blephar/o

• aque/o

• papill/o