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What components make up the periorbital region?

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Superior and Inferior Palpebra - eyelids

Eyelashes

Supraorbital ridge - diverts fluids

Lacrimal caruncle - directs tears into opening to drain

Extrinsic Eye muscles

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What is the lacrimal apparatus and what are the components?

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Produces and brings tears to surface of eye and reabsorbs tears

Components

  1. Lacrimal Gland - produce tears
  2. Lacrimal Ducts - bring tears to eye
  3. Lacrimal Puncta - entry into lacrimal canals
  4. Lacrimal Canals - brings tears to nasolarcimal duct
  5. Nasolacrimal Duct - takes tears to nasal cavity
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How does the eyelid blink and what is the purpose?

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Blink from lateral to medial and helps spread tears

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What kind of antimicrobial is contained in tears?

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Lysozyme

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What are the components of the fibrous tunic?

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Continuous w/ dura mater of brain

  1. Cornea - clear part of eye
  2. Sclera - white of eye
    • conjuctiva is the mucous membrane of sclera
  3. Canals of Schlemm - edge of cornea/sclera
    • where you drain fluid from eye
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What are the components of the vascular tunic?

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  1. Choroid
    • blood vessels provide nutrients for retina
  2. Ciliary Body
    • ciliary muscle - connects to lens to change shape
    • ciliary processes - make aqueous fluid
  3. Iris
    • sphinctor pupillae - constrict pupil
    • dilator pupillae - dilate pupil
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How is the lens held in place?

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With suspensory ligaments

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What is the accommodation reflex?

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The lens changes shape for near/far vision

  • Near vision lens = more biconvex (round)
  • Far vision lens = less biconvex
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What makes up the nervous tunic or retina?

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  1. Pigmented Layer - absorbs light to prevent from bouncing
  2. Nervous Layer - photoreceptors, bipolar and ganglion cells
  3. Optic Disk - blind spot where retina connects to optic nerve
  4. Ora Serrata - where retina connects to ciliary body
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What are the different nervous layers of the retina or nervous tunic?

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  1. Photoreceptor layer
    • rods - dim light and black/white
    • cones - color vision
  2. Bipolar layer
    • bipolar cells
  3. Ganglion layer
    • axons that compose optic nerve
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What is the central fovea?

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Central fovea - only photoreceptors=sharpest vision

-100% cones in central fovea and more rods as you move away

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What are the characteristics of the lens?

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  1. biconvex
  2. made of crystallin proteins
    1. suspensory ligaments
  3. change shape with accomodation reflex
  4. focuses light on the retina
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How does the ciliary body and suspensory ligaments interact with eachother to change shape of lens?

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Ciliary body relaxes = more tension on suspensory ligaments

-lens is less biconvex for far vision

Ciliary body contracts = less tension on suspensory ligaments

-lens is more biconvex for near vision

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What are the different cavities and chambers of the eye?

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Anterior Cavity

  • posterior chamber
  • anterior chamber

Posterior Cavity

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What fluids fill up the different cavities of the eye? How is intraocular pressure and turgor maintained?

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Anterior Cavity = aqueous humor

-constanty produced and reabsorbed

Posterior Cavity = vitreous humor

-not continuously produced/reabsorbed

Intraocular pressure maintained with aqueous humor

Turgor (shape) maintained with vitreous humor

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What three processes are involved in formation of images on the retina?

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  1. Refraction of light rays
  2. accomodation of lens
  3. constriction of pupil
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How much light is refracted by the cornea and lens?

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cornes = 60%

lens = 40%

18
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How does accomodation work for lens?

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Biconvex lens

Far object = less convex

Near object = more convex

ciliary muscles change shape of lens

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How does constriction of the pupil affect vision?

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Part of the accomodation reflex that limits peripheral light

-near vision = pupillary constriction

20
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How do photoreceptors act as neurons in different light conditions?

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21
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What are the characteristics of rod cells?

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  • not present in central fovea
  • increase in concentration to ora serrata
  • dim light and peripheral vision
  • 6 – 600 rod cells converge on 1 bipolar cell, as well as amacrine and
  • horizontal cells.
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What are the characteristics of cone cells?

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  • 100% cone cells in central fovea
  • diminish in number toward ora serrata
  • three different types: blue, red, green cone cells
  • bright light required to break pigments
  • 1:1 relationship with bipolar cells
  • visual acuity and color vision
23
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Walk through the visual pathway.

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Begin when bipolar neurons initiate action potential after receiving signal from photoreceptors

-Ganglion cell axons converge in blind spot = optice nerve

Optic Chiasma = some crossing over

  • medial retina pathway = contralateral
  • lateral retina pathway = ipsilateral
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What is the anatomy of the external ear?

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25
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What are ceruminous glands?

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Located in external ear and produce cerumin, ear wax.

-antimicrobial

26
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What is the anatomy of the middle ear?

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27
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What do mastoid air cell do?

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packets of air in temporal bone that drain fluid from middle ear

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What are the three ossicles and why have three?

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Malleus, Incus, Stapes

-can modulate amount of vibration reaching middle ear

29
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What are the protective muscles around ossicles and what is tehir function?

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Stapedius and Tensor tympani

-prevent ossicles from vibrating too hard w/ loud sustained sounds

30
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What is the anatomy of the border betwen outer/middle ear?

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31
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What is the outer anatomy of the internal ear?

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Bony Labyrinth filled with perilymph

  • 3 semicircular canals
    • frontal, horizontal, sagittal
  • vestibule - equilibrium
  • cochlea
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What is the inner anatomy of the internal ear?

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Membranous Labyrinth filled w/ endolymph

  • 3 semicircular ducts
    • frontal, horizontal, sagittal
  • vestibule - equilibrium
    • utricle and saccule filled with fluid
  • cochlea
    • cochlear duct also known as scala media
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What is the anatomy of the cochlea cross section?

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Scala vestibuli - has perilymph

Scala tympani - has perilymph

Scala media - has endolymph

Vestibular membrane - move w/ sound

Basilar membrane - move w/ sound

Tectorial membrane - does not move w/ sound

Spiral organ of Corti - organ used in hearing

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How does stiffness of the vestibular/basilar membrane correlate w/ sound?

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The beginning of the cochlea near round window = more stiff

-more stiff = high frequency = high pitch

End of cochlea = more flexible

-more flexible = low frequency = low pitch

35
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Explain the physiology of hearing

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36
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What is static equilibrium?

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Accomplished with saccule and utricle in vestibule

-filled w/ endolymph

Hair cells inside saccule and utricle sense changes in the gelatinous otolithic membrane

-as otoliths move they move hair cells

37
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What does static equilirbium monitor?

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  1. perception of head orientation when body is stationary
  2. perception of linear acceleration/deceleration
38
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How is dynamic equilibrium monitored?

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  1. Semicircular ducts
    • the three positions of the ducts monitor equilibrium in that plane
  2. hair cells
    • monitor changes in gel that fills cupula in the ampulla
  3. cupulla in the ampulla
39
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What does dynamic equilibrium monitor?

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perception of rotational movements

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