Final Exam Eye Flashcards
Bony socket of the skull where eye sits?
Orbit
What are the 3 layer of the eye?
- Outer fibrous tunic
- Middle Vascular tunic
- inner retinal tunic
What is the adnexa?
Accesory ocular structures
What are the 3 adnexa of the eye?
- palpebrae
- third eyelid and conjunctiva
- lacrimal apparatus
What are the 3 components of the fibrous tunic?
- sclera
- cornea
- limbus
What are the 3 components of the vascular tunic?
- iris
- ciliary body
- choroid
What are the 2 layers of the retina?
- pigmented layer
2. neural layer
What is another name for the retinal tunic?
Neuroepithelial tunic
The posterior portion of the eye, white opaque layer of dense irregular CT.
Sclera
What are the 3 functions of the sclera
- protects eye
- maintains shape
- insertion pts. for tendons
Anterior portion of the eye, avascular, transparent, convex-concave lens
Cornea
What are the 5 layers of the cornea
- corneal epithelium
- limiting lamina
- subtantia propria
- descemet’s memb.
- posterior epithelium
What are the 4 factors that contribute to corneal transparency?
- avascular
- collagen arrangement
- proteoglycans
- Na+ pumps
The corneoscleral junction, where the transparent cornea merges wwith the vacular sclera
Limbus
Pigmented loose connective tissue of the iris?
Stroma