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-socket, eyebrows, eyelid, eyelash
-tears |
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-pigmented layer-like a natural dark room in the eye
-layer of photoreceptors
-layer of nerve cells |
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light-dark
rhodopsin-found in carrots->night blindness (absorbs light) |
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-color-red, blue, and green->color blindness (rare to see no color)
-fovea-the area that produces the clearest vision |
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| layer of nerve cells in the eye |
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| where optic nerve leaves eye = blind spot |
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-anterior chamber-aqueous humor-constantly remade
-posterior chamber-vitreous humor-if some is lost is can't be replaced (holds retina in place)
-glaucoma-to much vitreous humor |
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-accomodation-change in lens for close vision
-if focusing on something up close, lens is contracted |
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normal vision = image focused on retina
nearsightedness (myopia)
farsightedness (hyperopia)
presbyopia (happens as we get older)
astigmatism |
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| image focuses in front of retina |
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| farsightedness (hyperopia) |
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| image focuses 'behind' retina |
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| presbyopia (happens as we get older) |
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