11. Eye and Eye Movements (Keim) Flashcards
What are the 3 layers of the eye and their sublayers?
Which muscles of the eye are not innervated by the oculomotor nerve?
Which nerves are they innervated by instead?
Lateral rectus - abducens
Superior oblique - trochlear nerve.
Why do patients with trochlear palsy lean to one side?
Which side do they lean to?
Pts with trochlear palsy lean away from the affected side because the affected eye is extorsioned. They turn to compensate.
What nerve innervates levator palpebrae superioris?
Occulomotor (CN III)
What are the causes discussed for a central retinal artery occlusion?
Atherosclerosis or embolism.
What nerve innervates the superior and inferior rectus muscles?
The oculomotor nerve.
Which cranial nerve comes out dorsally from the midbrain?
Trochlear.
Diagnosis?
(ignore the arrow, that is making a different point.)
Papilledema.
What nerves does the frontal nerve of the orbit branch into?
Supraorbital N
Supratrochlear N
What is the action and innervation of the lateral rectus muscle?
Abduction of the eyeball.
Abducens CN VI
What is the other name for the suspensory ligament of the lens?
What two structures does it attach?
Zonular fibers.
Ciliary body and the lens.
Describe the presentation for occulomotor palsy.
What muscles are working?
Superior oblique and lateral rectus work, causing the eye to go “down and out.”
We also see ptosis, due to the loss of the occulomotor control of the levator palpebrae superioris.
The pupil will be dilated because the parasympathetics to the eye also travel in the oculomotor nerve.
What can cause glaucoma?
Increased intraocular pressure - possibly due to blockage of the scleral venous sinus. (Schlemm’s canal)
Describe the corneal reflex.
CN V1 is sensory component
CN VII is motor component
When the cornea is touched with cotton, the nasociliary nerves will carry the general somatic afferent information back to the trigeminal sensory nucleus or spinal trigeminal nucleus.
Those nerves will then synapse with the facial nucleus.
The nerves out of the facial nucleus will activate the orbicularis oculi (ocular and palpebral parts).
What causes complete ptosis, and what causes partial ptosis?
Complete ptosis is due to damage of the oculomotor nerve.
Partial ptosis is due to damage of the sympathetics (tarsal muscle) such as in Horner Syndrome.
What cranial nerve carries parasympathetics for tear production?
Facial nerve.
(Via greater petrosal.)
Parasympathetics to the eye run with what nerve?
Sympathetics to the eye run with what nerve?
Parasympathetics: Oculomotor nerve
Sympathetics: Nasociliary nerve (from the ophthalamic branch of the Trigeminal N.)
What type of vision would someone be using if their ciliary muscles were relaxed, near vision or far vision?
Far vision.
Why is the central retinal artery so important?
Because it is the only artery to the retina, and if it is occluded, you will end up blind.
What sorts of things can cause central retinal vein occlusion?
Hardening or hypertension of the central retinal artery.
Increased intracranial pressure.
Which muscles are innervated by the superior and inferior branches of the oculomotor nerve respectively?
- Superior
- Levator palpebrae superioris
- Superior rectus
- Inferior
- Inferior oblique
- Inferior rectus
- Medial rectus
What muscles are the adductors of the eye?
Superior rectus
Inferior rectus
Medial rectus