Ophthalmic Assistant

Category - Ocular Motility and Visual Fields

The ability to maintain visual focus on an object with both eyes, resulting in a single visual image, is known as
  1. visual acuity.
  2. monocular vision.
  3. heterophoria.
  4. binocular vision.
Explanation
Answer: D - binocular vision.

The ability to maintain visual focus on an object with both eyes, resulting in a single visual image, is known as binocular vision. Adults who lack binocular vision experience distortions in depth perception and visual measurement of distance. The term binocular vision comes from the Latin roots bini, which means double, and oculus, which means eye.
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