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1
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what is the fascial sheath of the eyeball?

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Extends from the optic nerve to the corneoscleral junction, and separates the eye from periorbital fat

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What is the medial check ligament?

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Expansion of the fascial sheath of the medial rectus muscle, what prevents over-action of this muscle

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What is the lateral check ligament?

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Expansion of the fascial sheath of the lateral rectus muscle, what prevents over-action of this muscle

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What is the name given to the space between the eyelids when they are open?

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Palprebral fissure

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5
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What are the angles of the palprebral fissure called?

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Medial and lateral commissure

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6
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Which is bigger, the medial or lateral commissure?

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Medial

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7
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What is found in the medial commisure?

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Lacrimal caruncle

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8
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What is the reddish elavation in the medial commissure that contains oil and sweat glands?

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Larcrimal caruncle

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9
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What is found in the lacrimal caruncle?

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Oil and sweat glands

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10
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What are the layers of the eyelid?

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(1) Epidermis
(2) Dermis
(3) Subcutaneous tissue
(4) Obicularis Oculi fibres
(5) Tarsal plate
(6) Tarsal glands
(7) Conjunctiva

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11
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What are the two parts to the orbicularis oculi muscle?

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Orbital part and palprebrae part

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12
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What innervates the orbicularis oculi muscle?

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Facial nerve

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13
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What is the role of the orbucularis oculi muscle?

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To close the eyelids

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14
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What ligaments anchor the palprebral part of the OO muscle?

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Medial and lateral palprebral ligaments

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15
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What is the tarsal plate?

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A thick fold of connective tissue

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16
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Which is bigger: superior or inferior tarsus?

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superior tarsus

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17
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What muscle is the superior tarsus associated with?

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Levator palprebrae muscle

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18
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What is the role of the levator palprebral muscle ? what innervates it?

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Parasympathetic fibres of the oculomotor nerve.

I keeps the eyelid open.

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19
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Where does the levator palprebrae muscle extend from?

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Lesser wing of sphenoid (to the superior tarsus muscle).

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20
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What type of glands are the tarsus glands?

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sebacceous (oil) glands

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21
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What is another name given to the tarsus glands?

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Meibomian glands

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22
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What does infection of a tarsal gland cause?

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A cyst called a chalzion.

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23
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What is conjunctiva?

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non-keratinised stratified columnar epithelium

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24
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What are the two types of conjunctiva?

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Palprebral and bulbar

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25
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where is palprebral conjunctiva found?

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On the inner aspects of eyelids

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26
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Where is the bulbar conjunctiva found?

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Covering the sclera

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27
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Which conjunctiva is vascular: palprebral or bulbar?

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bulbar

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28
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What does the lacrimal apparatus consist of? (4)

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(1) Lacrimal gland and ducts
(2) Lacrimal canaliculi
(3) Lacrimal sac
(4) Nasolacrimal duct

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29
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Where is the lacrimal gland located?

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Lacrimal fossa

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30
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What bone forms the lacrimal fossa?

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Frontal bone

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31
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What muscle separates the lacrimal gland into two parts

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levator palprebrae superioris

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32
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In which direction does fluid move over the eyeball?

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Medially

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33
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What does the fluid moving over the eyeball accummulate in?

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Lacrimal lake

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34
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What do the superior and inferior lacrimal canaliculus unite to form?

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Lacrimal sac

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35
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How does fluid get from the lacrimal sac to the nasolacrimal duct?

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During blinking, the palprebral part of the OO muscle contracts, forcing fluid into the nasolacrimal duct

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36
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Where does the nasolacrimal duct open into the nasal cavity?

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Inferior nasal meatus

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37
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How much lacrimal fluid is produced per day?

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1ml

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38
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What is the diameter of the eyeball?

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2.5cm

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39
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How musch of the eyeball is exposed?

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1/6

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40
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What ar the three layers of the wall of the eyeball?

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(1) fibrous
(2) vascular
(3) Nervous/retina

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41
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What are the two componenets of the fibrous layer of the eye?

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Sclera and cornea

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42
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What is the proper name for the white of the eye?

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The sclera.

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43
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What structure at the front of the eye is the sclera continuous with?

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The cornea

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44
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What is another name for the vascular layer of the eye?

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Urea

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45
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What parts make up the vascular layer of the eye?

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(1) choroid
(2) ciliary body
(3) iris

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46
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Where does the choroid get its blood supply from?

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The posterior cilliary arteries.

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47
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What feature of the choroid helps limit uncontrolled reflection within the eye that could interfere with sight?

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The presence of the dark pigment melanin.

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48
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What is the name for the layer of capillaries in the choroid?

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Choriocapillaris.

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49
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What type of nerves control the cilliary muscle where do they originate from?

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Parasympathtic fibers originating from the III cranial nerve (the occulomotor).

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50
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What makes up the ciliary body?

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ciliary muscle and ciliary process

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51
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What is the effect of the contraction of the muscles of the cilliary body?

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The ring made by the cilliary body shrinks reducing pressure on the lens allowing it to relax and become more convex (bulge out)

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52
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What type of muscle is the ciliary muscle?

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smooth muscle

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53
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What does the ciliary process secrete?

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Aqueous humor

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54
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What extends from the ciliary processes?

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Suspensory filament of the lens / zonula fibres

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55
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what makes up the iris?

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Melanocytes and radial and circular muscle

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56
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What determines the eye colour?

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the amount of melanin

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57
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What happens when the circular muscles of the iris contract?

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the pupil constrists

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58
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What innervates the circular muscle of the iris?

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parasympathetic fibres of the oculomotor nerve

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59
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What happens when the radial muscles of the iris contract?

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the pupil dilates

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60
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What innervates the radial muscle of the iris?

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sympathetic fibres

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61
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What are the two parts of the retina?

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Optic part, and non-visual part

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62
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what does the non-visual part of the retina cover?

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Internal surface of the ciliary body and iris

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63
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What is the name for the junction between the visual parts of the retina and the anterior non-visual part of the retina

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Ora serreta

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64
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Where does the optic nerve enter the eyeball?

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Optic disc

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65
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What is the name for the blind spot of the retina what type of cells are not present that make this part non visual?

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The optic disc, rod and cone cells are not present causing this area to be unable to process light.

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66
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What is the exact centre of the posterior portion of the eye called?

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Macula lutea

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67
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What is at the centre of the macula lutea?

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Fovea centralis

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68
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What is the fovea of the eye?

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A small pit at the centre of the eye where most of the light is focused it contains a particularly high concentration of cone cells.

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69
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What part of the eye has highest acuity or resolution?

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fovea

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70
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What are the two layers of the optic part of the retina?

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The pigmented and neural layers.

71
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What layer of the retina becomes detached in a detached retina?

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The neural layer.

72
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what is contained in the pigmented layer of the eye?

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Melanin-containing epithelial cells

73
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What are the 3 layers of the neuronal layer of the optic retina?

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(1) Photoreceptor layer/Outer nuclear
(2) Bipolar layer/Inner nuclear
(3) ganglion layer

74
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How many rods and cones does the retina have?

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120 million rods

6 million cones

75
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What is the diameter of the lens?

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9-10mm

76
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what proteins are found in the lens that make up the refractive media?

A

crystallins

77
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How are the crystallins of the lens organised?

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Like the layers of an onion

78
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What is in the lens that ensures that the lens protein remains in a reduced state, and thus maintains the transparency?

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reduced glutathione

79
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What are the three chambers of the eye?

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The anterior, posterior and vitreous chamber.

80
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What are the anterior and posterior chambers filled with what opening connects the two?

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The aqueous humor, the papillary opening connects the two chambers.

81
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What produces the aqueous humor what is its course including drainage?

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It is produced by the cilliary body flows from the posterior chamber through the pupil into the anterior chamber it is then taken up into the sclera venous sinus/canal of schlemm

82
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Where is the sclera venous sinus/canal of schlemm?

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The junction between the cornea and the iris.

83
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What is the junction between the cornea and iris called?

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Canal of schlemm/sclera venous sinus

84
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What are the 3 functions of the aqueous humor?

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(1) To supply nutrients to the avascular cornea and lens
(2) maintains the intraoccular pressure, and therefore the shape of the chamber
(3) acts as a suspension for the lens

85
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What is the name for the increase in intraoccular pressure caused by the disruption of the usual production and absorption of aqueous humor

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glaucoma.

86
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How long does it take aqueous humor to be completely replaced?

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90 minutes

87
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What makes up the vitreous humor that fills the vitrous chamber?

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Mostly water very few cells which are mostly phagocytes, and a network of collagen fibres.

88
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What two structures does the vitreous humor keep together how does it do this?

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The retina and the choroid. It keeps them attached by pressing them together.

89
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what is the normal intraocula pressure?

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16mmHg

90
Q

What happens when light passes from one medium into another and the speed slows?

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It bends towards a line that is perpendicular to the border.

91
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What is the distance called from the refractive surface to where the light rays converge

A

focal distance

92
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How much refraction occurs at the cornea?

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75%

93
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How much refraction occurs at the lens?

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25%

94
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what is a dioptre?

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the reciprocal of the focal distance (in metres)

95
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What is it called when rays do not meet after the lens in one focal point?

A

Spherical abberation

96
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What is spherical abberation?

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When rays do not meet after the lens in one focal point

97
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What is it called when a lens cannot focus all colours to the same convergence point?

A

chromatic abberation

98
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what is chromattic abberation

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When there is failure of the lens to focus all colours to one convergence point

99
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What is binocular vision?

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When both eyes focus on one set of objects

100
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What is convergence with respect to binocular vision?

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the medial movement of the eyeballs so that they are both directed towards the same point

101
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How far does the visual field extend nasally? and temporarilly (away from nose)

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nasally - 60 degrees

temporarily - 100 degrees

102
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how far does the visual field extend above and below the horizontal meridian?

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60 degrees above

75 degrees below

103
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What is the binocular visual field?

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The region of visual field that overlaps from both eyes

104
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What does visual acuity depend on?

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  • precision of the eyes refraction

- spacing of photoreceptors

105
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What are the three glial cells in the retina?

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  • muller cells
  • astrocytes
  • retinal pigment epithelial cells
106
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Where are muller cell bodies located?

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Inner nuclear layer

107
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What two membranes do the muller cells form?

A

Internal limiting membrane

External limiting membrane

108
Q

How many discs are in a cone?

A

1000 discs

109
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What phagocytoses the discs?

A

pigment epithelial cells

110
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what is retinal derived from?

A

vitamin A

111
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What is photopic vision?

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the contributions of rods to vision nearly drops out completely

112
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What is scotopic vision?

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When only rods are activated - at the lowest levels of light

113
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What is mescopic vision

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Both rods and cones contribute, at twilight for example.

114
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What are trichomats?

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using a three-cone system to abdorb different wavelengths of light

115
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What are the three different populations of cones?

A

red
green
blue

116
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What is rhodopsin bleaching?

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The conversion of 11-cis-retinal to all-trans-retinal, with the subsequent separation from opsin.

117
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what is different about the photopigments of rods and cones?

A

the retinal vitamin A derivative is the same, but the opsin meioty is different

118
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How many cones are there at the fovea (concentration)

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199,000 cones per millimetre squared

119
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How big is the rod free zone in the fovea?

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0.35mm

120
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What is photodecomposition?

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The separation of all-trans-retinal from the rhodopsin

121
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What is formed in the conversion of 11-cis to all-trans that acts as an enzyme to activate transducin.

A

metarhodopsin II

122
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What deactivates meta II (activated rhodopsin)

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rhodopsin kinase and arrestin

123
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What catalyses the isomeration of all-trans to 11-cis?

A

retinal isomerase.

124
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Via what kind of pathway is a signal produced when an opsin molecule absorbs a photon? What does this result in?

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Signal transduction pathway activation of this kind of pathway results in the hyperpolarisation of the cell.

125
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What is the specialty of the rod cell? Where are they mostly found?

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Sensation of low levels of light. They are found mostly on the periphery of the retina.

126
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What region of light are rods most sensitive to?

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green to blue more specifically 498nm.

127
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What is meant by rod cells converging what is the advantage and disadvantage of this occurring?

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Multiple rod cells converge on one interneuron. This collects and amplifies the signal however by doing this some resolution is lost.

128
Q

What neurotransmitter is released by rod and cone cells?

A

Glutamate.

129
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How is the release of glutamate affected by the absorption of photons?

A

It stops it.

130
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High concentration of what molecule in the dark allows the opening of of sodium and to a lesser extent calcium channels causing depolarization and the release of Glutamate.

A

cGMP

131
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What is the affect of the high levels cGMP on the intracellular activity of a rod cell?

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It causes the opening of sodium and to a lesser extent calcium channels causing depolarisation.

132
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What enzyme is activated by the shape change of rhodopsin when it has absorbed a photon?

A

cGMP phosphodiesterase.

133
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What vitamin is contained within rhodopsin what is the effect of a deficiency of this vitamin?

A

Vitamin A, Night blindness is the result of a deficiency

134
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Why do cones have a higher resolution than rods?

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Multiple rod cells attach to each interneuron. each cone attaches to an individual bipolar cell.

135
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What two types of cell transmit information between cells of the same layer in the retina?

A

amacrine and horizontal cells

136
Q

Which is most inner of the inner cell layer: amacrine or horizontal?

A

amacrine

137
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What are the 5 different populations of retinal ganglion cells?

A 
M/Magnocellular cells
P/Parvocellular cells
K cells
Photosensitive ganglions
Final population
138
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Describe the role of M/magnocellular cells?

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Large center surround receptive fields, sensitive to depth but indifferent to color and adapts rapidly to stimulis

139
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Describe the role of P/Parvocellular cells?

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Small centre surround receptive fields, sensitive to colour and shape.

140
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Describe the role of K cells?

A

Very large centre-only receptive fields, sensitive to colour but indifferent to shape and depth.

141
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Of the P layers in the lateral geniculate gyrus - which ones come from the ipsilateral eye?

A

P3 and P5

142
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Of the M layers in the lateral geniculate gyrus - which one comes from the ipsilateral eye?

A

2

143
Q

Where is the optic chiasm?

A

At the base of the hypothalamus

144
Q

what layer of the primary visual cortex do magnocellular neurons project to?

A

Layer IVc-alpha

145
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what layer of the primary visual cortex do parvocellular neurons project to?

A

Layer IVc-beta

146
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What are blobs in the primary visual cortex?

A

sections where groups of neurons that are sensitive to colour assemble

147
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What are interblobs in the primary visual cortex?

A

Areas between blobs where neurons sensitive to orientation assemble.

148
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What are the different cells found in the primary visual cortex?

A
  • centre surround
  • simple cells (edge determination)
  • complex cells
  • hypercomplex cells
149
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What layer do the fibres from the P and M cells insert into?

A

4c

150
Q

What are the other targets of ganglion axons?

A

MIDBRAIN TARGETS:

(1) pretectum
(2) hypothalamus
(3) Superior colliculus

151
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what is the role of the pretectum?

A

control of pupil - papillary light reflex

152
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What is the role of hypothalamus?

A

carcadian rhythm (day/night)

153
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What is the role of the superior colliculus

A

eye movements (involuntary)

154
Q

What is blindsight?

A

ability of people who are cortically blind due to lesions in their striate cortex to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see

155
Q

What is another name given to pupil constriction?

A

miosis

156
Q

what is another name given to pupil constriction?

A

mydriasis

157
Q

what is the consensual response?

A

pupillar reflex of the unstimulated eye

158
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What is a relative afferent papillary defect?

A

Damage to either the optic nerve or occulomotor nerve that affects the pupillary reflex

159
Q

what is strabismus?

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Cross eye - lack of fusion of the eyes due to lack of coordination of the extraocular muscles

160
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Strabismus - what would an impairment of [CN III] cause?

A

Affected eye to deviate down and out

lateral rectus pulls it out, superior oblique pulls it down

161
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Strabismus - what would an impairment of [CN IV] cause?

A

Affected eye to drift up and slightly in

162
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What is amblyopia?

A

decreased vision in an eye that otherwise appears normal

163
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What is anisometropia?

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Inequality of refraction of the eyes

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What is cataract?

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Opacification of the lens

165
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what is hypermetropia?

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long-sightedness

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How is hypermetropia treated?

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Convex lens

167
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What is a convex lens - positive or negative?

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positive

168
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what is myotropia?

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Shortsightedness

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How is myopia treated?

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Concave lens

170
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What is a concave lens - positive or negative?

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negative

171
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what is astigmatism?

A

corneal surface is asymmetric

172
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How does a pituitary tumour affect vision?

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Pituitary gland is located just inferior to the optic chiasm

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What is macular sparing?

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the central 5-10 degrees of the visual field is unaffected in an otherwise hemo-anopic defect.

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what is anopia?

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sightlessness

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