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✓ Congenital
✓ Traumatic or due systemic diseases like DM
✓ prolonged corticosteroid treatment etc.

b) Glaucoma

i) Primary glaucoma: It is of 2 types:

✓ Open angle (seen in people above the age of 50 years)
✓ Angle-closure glaucoma

ii) Congenital glaucoma

iii) Secondary glaucoma

c) Retinopathies

d) Retinal detachment

e) Refractive error

Types

✓ Myopia

✓ Hypermetropia

f) Blindness

Color blindness - It is impairment of color perception

✓cause of blindness

✓ Residual visual acuity and any inmpainnent of functional capacity

✓ Occupation

✓ Progressive
✓ any systemic disorders

g) Strabismus / Squint - It is weakness or defective nerve supply to the extra-ocular muscle
which results in inability of the eyes to move together

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