Anatomy Flashcards
What bone is the superior orbital fissure in?
Sphenoid bone
What bone is infraorbital foramen in?
Maxilla
What bone is optic canal in?
Sphenoid bone
What bone is supraorbital notch in?
Frontal bone
What is the apex of the bony orbit?
Optic canal
What parts of the bony orbit are affected in blowout fractures because they are extremely thin?
Medial wall and orbital floorq
What NVB can be damaged in blowout fractures?
Infraorbital
What are the two parts of the obicularis oculi in the external layer of eyelid?
Orbital and palpebral parts (palpebral is lower lid)
What is the tendon called that is superior on the eyelid?
Tendon of levator palpebrae superioris
What are the two ligaments medial and lateral of the eyelid?
Lateral palpebral ligament
Medial palpebral ligament
Name the sheet of fascia on the eyelid that helps prevent spread of infection from superficial to deep?
Orbital septum
What structures above and below the eyelid are thumb shaped?
Superior tarsus and inferior tarsus
What structure does the levator palpebrae superioris attach to?
Superior Tarsus
What role do the tarsal glands have?
Lipid secretion
What are the coloured parts of the eye called?
Iris
What is the iris covered by?
The cornea
What is the lower eyelid lined by?
Conjunctiva
What is the junction between the sclera and cornea called?
The limbus
What is the conjunctival fornix?
Loose arching folds connecting the conjunctival membrane lining the inside of the eyelid with the conjunctival membrane covering the eyeball
What innervates the lacrimal gland?
Parasympathetic VII
What do lacrimal fluid drain through?
Lacrimal puncta
What is a variable aperture, under autonomic control, in the centre of the iris?
The pupil
What are the three layers of the eye?
Fibrous
Uvea (vascular layer)
Retina (photosensitive - inner layer)
What are the two layers of the fibrous part of the eye?
Sclera - muscle attachment
Cornea - 2/3rd of refractive power
What are the three parts of the uvea layer?
- Iris - pupil diameter
- Ciliary body
- Choroid
What structure in the uvea controls nutrition and gas exchange?
Choroid
What structure in the uvea controls iris, shape of lens and secretion of aqueous humour?
Ciliary body
Where is the anterior segment of the eye
In front of lens - divided into chambers
What is the anterior chamber of the anterior segment of eye between and what does it contain?
Between cornea and iris- contains aqueous humour
What is the posterior chamber of the anterior segment of eye between and what does it contain?
Between iris and suspensory ligaments - contains aqueous humour
Where is the posterior segment of the eye?
Behind the lens - 2/3rds of the eye
What does the posterior segment of eye contain?
Contains vitreous body which has vitreous humour. The vitrous body is common location for floaters
What is clouding of the lens called?
A cataract
How does aqueous from posterior chamber get into anterior chamber to nourish the cornea?
Passes through pupil
Once aqueous has been through the pupil - where does it get reabsorbed?
Into scleral venous sinus (canal of schlemm) at iridocorneal angle
What is the posterior area in the retina where light is focused?
Fundus
What three structures does the fundus contain in the retina?
- Optic disc
- Macula
- Fovea
What structure in the fundus of the retina is the point of CN II formation, only point of entry for blood vessels and axons of CN II and is the blind spot?
Optic disc
What do the central artery of the retina and the central vein of theretina travel through?
Optic nerve
What does the macula of the fundus of the retina contain?
Greatest density of cones
What is the fovea?
Centre of the macule, depression, 1.5mm diameter and area of most acute vision
What does complete interuption of flow in a retinal artery branch/retinal vein cause?
Loss of an area of visual field corresponding to the area of ischaemia
What does complete interruption of flow of the central artery (
Monocular blindness
What are the three layers of the retina from posterior to anterior?
- Photoreceptors
- Ganglion cells lie anterior to the photoreceptor cells
- Axons of the gangliong cells lie anterior to the ganglion cell and photoreceptor cells
Where do the retinal veins and retinal arteries lie?
Anterior to the retina
Why is the optic disc termed the blind spot?
Because there are no photoreceptors in it
Where is light from objects in the right visual field processed by?
The left primary visual cortex
What arteries branch off the opthalmic arterty to supply the eye?
Ciliary arteries
What type of artery is the central artery of the retina?
An end artery
What is the only vein draining the retina?
The central vein
Where does the orbit drain anteriorly into?
The facial vein
What drains mainly into the superior opthalmic vein?
The inferior opthalmic vein
Where does most venous drainage from the orbit eventually go?
Cavernous sinus via the superior orbital fissure
How many rectus muscles are there?
4
Where do all 4 rectus muscles originate from?
Common tendinous ring
Where do all 4 rectus muscles insert onto?
Sclera
Where do the 2 oblique muscles insert onto?
Sclera
What does levator palpebrae superioris lift?
The upper eye lid
What does superior oblique muscle go through?
Trochlea
What is the somatic motor innervation of extraorricular muscles?
LR6 - Lateral rectus CN6
SO4 - Superior oblique CN4
AO3 - All others CN3
What movements of the eyeball occur around the vertical axis?
Abduction and adduction (abducts away from midline or adducts towards midline)
What movements of teh eyeball occur around the transverse axis?
Elevation and depression
What movements of the eyeball occur around the anteroposterior axis (superior pole of eyeball)?
Intorsion (medial rotation) and extorsion (lateral rotation)
What two muscles do not have secondary movements?
Medial and lateral rectus
What do you have to do to isolate muscle movement when clinically testing eye movements?
Line up gaze to plane of muscles being tested
What movement can lateral rectus do?
ONLY abduct the eyeball
When in abduction - what is the only movement superior rectus can do?
Only elevate
When in abduction - what is the only movement inferior rectus can do?
Only depress
What movement can medial rectus only do?
Adduct eyeball (move it medially)
When in adduction what is the only movement inferior oblique can do?
Elevate
When in adduction what is the only movement superior oblique can do?
Depress - trochlear nerve
What two muscles can purely elevate the eye?
Superior rectus and inferior oblique
What two muscles can purely depress the eye?
Superior oblique and inferior rectus