Objective 4 Flashcards
The right optic tract consists of temporal retinal fibers from which eye?
Right
Part of the eye where fibers of optic nerve from each eye cross at a spot is called the optic…
Chiasm
Layer of the retina composed of many long ganglion cell axons when run parallel to the retinal surface
Nerve fiber
Area surrounding the fovea which helps supply clear, straight ahead vision
Macula
Smallest region of the retina
Central
Abbreviation for the outermost layer of the retina
RPE
Vessels from what part of the eye are one of the two main sources of blood supply to the visual pathway
Choroid
Photoreceptor cells responsible for color vision
Cones
Number of retinal layers
Ten
The part of the eye responsible for sending electrical nerve impulses from the retina to the brain and is referred to as the optic…
Nerve
Very centre of the macula
Fovea
The part of the retina where there are no photoreceptors which results in a physiologic blind spot called the optic…
Disc
Rod dominated region of the retina
peripheral
Quality that makes the surface of the retina similar to the film in a camera
Photosensitivity
Site in the eye where light energy is transformed into neural signals that eventually become visual images
Retina
