Exam Two Flashcards
What is accommodation?
increasing lens strength from 20-34D.
Parasympathetic causes what in accommodation?
-contraction of ciliary muscle allowing relaxation of suspensory ligaments attached radially around lens, which becomes more convex, thus increasing refractive power.
What is presbyopia?
- loss of elasticity of the lens with age
- this decreases accommodation.
Types of errors of refraction?
- Emmetropia
- Hyperopia
- Myopia
- astigmatism
What is emmetropia?
- normal vision
- ciliary muscle is relaxed in distant vision
What is hyperopia?
- “far-sighted”
- focal point is behind the retina.
What is myopia?
- “near-sighted”
- focal point in front of retina.
What is astigmatism?
irregularly shaped
- cornea(more common), or
- lens(less common).
Information the Snellen Eye Chart gives you
ratio of what that person can see compared to a person with normal vision.
What is the fovea centralis?
area of greatest visual acuity.
Outside the fovea centralis, visual acuity increases or decreases by how much and where?
decreases by more than 10 fold near periphery.
What is Stereopsis?
binocular vision
What happens in stereopsis?
- eyes are separated by 2 inches-slight difference in position of visual image on both retinas
- closer objects are more laterally placed.
What is glaucoma?
- increased intraocular pressure by compression of optic nerve
- can lead to blindness.
What is the function of the retina and what does it contain?
- Peripheral extension of CNS
- Processing of visual signal.
- Contains photoreceptors(rods, cones) and other cells(amacrine, ganglion, horizontal, bipolar)
Examples of photoreceptors?
Rods and cones
Light breaks down what?
Rhodopsin(rods) and cone pigments(cones)
When stimulated by light, photoreceptors release less of?
glutamate
What are bipolar cells?
cells that connect photoreceptors to either ganglion cells or amacrine cells.
Two types of bipolar cells?
-“ON” or invaginating bipolars-hyperpolarized by glutamate -“OFF” or flat bipolars-depolarized by glutamate.
What are ganglion cells?
- can be “ON” or “OFF” bipolar
- generate action potentials carried by optic nerve.
Three types of ganglion cells
- x(p)
- y(m)
- w cells
P(x) ganglion cells
- most numerous(55%)
- slower conduction velocity
- small receptive field
- responsible for color vision
- project to Parvocellular layer of lateral geniculate nucleus.
M(y) ganglion cells
- receive input from amacrine cells
- 5% of ganglion cells
- larger receptive field
- fast conduction velocity
- more sensitive to brightness
- black and white images
- project to magnocellular lateral geniculate nucleus.