Eyes & Ears Lab Flashcards
What are the 2 fibrous layers, 3 vascular layers, and 2 neural layers?
fibrous = cornea + sclera vascular = choroid, iris, ciliary body neural = retina + optic nerve
What is the whites of the eye of the fibrous layer called?
sclera
What is the membrane over the iris and pupil called?
cornea
what is the colored part of the eye called?
iris
what is the dark hole in the eye called?
pupil
What has no rods and cones?
optic disc
What has the maximum number of rods and cones?
macula lutea
What is responsible for night vision or dim light? Where are they present?
rods
They are present at the periphery of they eye and decrease near the macula
What is responsible for day and color vision? Where are they concentrated?
- cones
- fovea centralis
Process of sight
- light first contacts the cornea
- the light is refracted at the cornea to produce an image on the retina
- the rods and cones are excited in the retina
- undergoes change in membrane potential & stimulates the ganglion cells
- the ganglion cell axons leave the retina in the optic nerve
Why do inverted images not confuse us? As a result, damage in the top part of the retina results in defective vision in the _____ of the visual field
- because we dont percieve the image directly
- lower part
what is it called when someone has 20/20 vision or when the eye does not under or overconverge or normal eyes
emmertropia
near sighted ness
myopia
far sightedness
hyperopia
cloudy lens
cataract