Eye Autonomics Flashcards
What is the sensory innervation of the eye and the skin associated with the eye?
Trigeminal nerve
What division is CN V1 called and what does it supply?
The ophthalmic division.
Supplies: Upper Eyelid Cornea Conjunctiva Skin of the root/bridge/tip of the nose
What division is CN V2 called and what does it supply?
The maxillary division.
Supplies: Skin of the lower eyelid Skin over the maxilla Skin of the ala of the nose Skin/mucosa of the upper lip
What division is CN V3 called and what does it supply?
The mandibular division.
Supplies:
Skin over the mandible and temporomandibular joint
Apart from the angle of the mandible- supplied by C2, 3 spinal nerves.
In the blink reflex, describe the sensory (afferent) limb.
Action potentials conducted from cornea via CN V1 branches.
To trigeminal ganglion, then along CN V
To pons
In the blink reflex, describe the motor (efferent) limb.
Action potentials conducted via CN VII
To eyelid part of obicularis oculi
The brain has no motor function. True or false?
True.
The smooth muscle of the iris controls what?
Pupil diameter.
The smooth muscle of the ciliary body controls what?
Focussing of the lens.
Sympathetic axons exit the spinal cord between what levels?
T1-L2.
Describe the presynaptic sympathetic axons from the CNS.
Exit the spinal cord in T1 spinal nerve
Ascend within sympathetic trunk
Synapse in superior cervical sympathetic ganglion
Describe the postsynaptic sympathetic axons.
Enter internal and external carotid nerves
Pass onto surface of the internal and external carotid arteries
Carried to the organs of the head on the surface of the branches of these arteries
Ophthalmic artery carries sympathetic axons into the orbit
All parasympathetic axons leave the CNS via which cranial nerves and via what else?
CN 3, 7, 9 and 10 and via sacral spinal nerves
The oculomotor (CN III) connects with the CNS where? Where does it pass through? And where does it exit?
At the junction between the midline and the pons
Passes through the cavernous sinus
Exits via the superior orbital fissure.
The superior division of CN III supplies which 2 extra-ocular muscles?
Superior rectus and levator palpebrae superioris.
The inferior division of CN III supplies which 3 extra-ocular muscles?
Medial rectus, inferior oblique and inferior rectus.
What do the ciliary nerves do?
Supply autonomic axons to control the diameter of the iris and refractive shape of the lens.
Long ciliary nerves are?
Sympathetic and somatic sensory.