Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners

Application Process for Medical Certification

Exam Techniques and Criteria for Qualification
Items 31-34. Eye


Consider the following signs:

  1. It is recommended that the Examiner consider the following signs during the course of the eye examination:
    1. 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.
    2. Swelling — abscess, allergy, cyst, exophthalmos, myxedema, or tumor.
    3. Other — clarity, discharge, dryness, ptosis, protosis, spasm (tic), tropion, or ulcer.
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