Category: O

A configuration of activities within a person’s lifestyle that does not meet physiological, psychological, or social needs in a manner that is healthful and satisfactory to the individual.  

Increased intraocular pressure, typically exceeding 21 mm Hg. This condition, present in glaucoma, may predispose affected persons to optic nerve damage and visual field loss.  

Either of the humors of the eye (aqueous and vitreous).  

A hormone produced by the ovary.  

A semistructured interview process used by occupational therapists to determine a person’s roles, approach to tasks, and sense of identity.  

The presence of an ovary in a hernial sac.  

A hernia containing a portion of the omentum.  

A hernia through the obturator foramen.  

A deformity of the hand caused by chronic arthritis in which the phalanges appear to be telescoped into one another like an opera glass.  

The position of the hand in tetany with extension at the metacarpophalangeal and the interphalangeal. joints, and adduction of the thumb. It is named for the position of the obstetrician’s hand during vaginal examination.