Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners
Application Process for Medical Certification
Exam Techniques and Criteria for Qualification
Items 31-34. Eye
Consider the following signs:
- It is recommended that the Examiner consider the following signs during the course of the eye examination:
- Color — redness or suffusion of allergy, drug use, glaucoma, infection, trauma, jaundice, ciliary flush of Iritis, and the green or brown Kayser-Fleischer Ring of Wilson's disease.
- Swelling — abscess, allergy, cyst, exophthalmos, myxedema, or tumor.
- Other — clarity, discharge, dryness, ptosis, protosis, spasm (tic), tropion, or ulcer.
