UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS

(Universidad del Perú, Decana de América)

“Año del Fortalecimiento de la Soberanía Nacional”

CURSO:
Inglés Aplicado en las Ciencias de la Salud II

DOCENTE:
Daniel Robles Cossio

GRUPO:
2

INTEGRANTES:
➔ Valeria Ximena Medina Palermo
➔ Eladio Caleb Vellón Gonzales
➔ Lisha Diana Tulich Ortiz
➔ Leonardo Michele Flores Vargas

AÑO ACADÉMICO:

2022-II
 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS
(Universidad del Perú, Decana de América)
“Año del Fortalecimiento de la Soberanía Nacional”

OPHTHALMOLOGICAL TERMS

1. Asthenopia: Eye fatigue due to muscular, environmental or physiological causes.

➔ Symptoms of asthenopia in the eye are responsible for much of the morbidity
in century VI.

2. Buftalmos: Large eyeball in cases of childhood glaucoma.

➔ The diagnosis of buftalmos can be made through a clinical examination and in

most cases, looking at the person can detect the growth of the eyeball.

3. Campimeter: Instrument to measure the visual field.

➔ The campimeter allows to know the state of the peripheral vision and with it,
to discard Glaucoma.

4. Oculist: A person who examines or treats people’s eyes.

➔ The inflammation was close to the eyes, and to prevent it, he went to an
oculist.

5. Glaucoma: A disease of the eye that can cause a person to gradually lose their sight

➔ People think that their vision is blurred by degrees of prolonged stress and
don’t consider having glaucoma.

6. Retinal detachment: An eye problem in which the light sensitive part of the retina
becomes separated from the eyeball causing vision problems

➔ Vision flashes can be an alarming sign of retinal detachment.

7. Vitrectomy: Surgical removal of all or part of vitreous humor for treat pathologies
related to this.

➔ Last week they practiced a vitrectomy on Mary to enhance her vision, so they
managed to focus the light on her retina
8. Melanoma: It’s a tumor that containing dark pigment

➔ Treatments targeting particular protein or gene mutations have improved

survival odds for melanoma and some other cancers like breast cancer
 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS
(Universidad del Perú, Decana de América)
“Año del Fortalecimiento de la Soberanía Nacional”

9. Jaeger Test: Test to measure the near vision using lines of different sizes.

➔ With the help of the Jaeger test, the ophthalmologist diagnosed the patient
with myopia.
10. Laser surgery: Often used to treat macular edema and proliferative retinopathy;
involves shrinking the abnormal blood vessels, or sealing the leaking ones.

➔ In 1985, the first laser eye surgery without cutting appeared, by the American
ophthalmologist Stephen Trokel.

Bibliography:

1. Medical Dictionary. Thefreedictionary.com. Available from:

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/

2. Dictionary by Merriam-Webster: America’s most-trusted online dictionary.

Merriam-webster.com. Available from: https://www.merriam-webster.com/