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eye and ear anatomy

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cornea   clear transparent, first thing light passes through, focuses light  
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choroid   light sponge, collects light rays  
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ciliary bodies/process   surrounds lens  
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iris   colored fibrous layer that controls the pupil size  
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retina   takes up three fourths of eye is made up of this, vision lands directly on it  
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optic disc   all body vessels go through it  
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vitreous body   back ball of fluid in eye  
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aqueous humor   fluid pocket in from of eye  
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lens   refracts light up to the middle age, held in the sespensitory ligament  
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suspensory ligament   outer pockets that cilliary bodies attached to from the lens  
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optic nerve   attaches eye, and carries impulses to brain  
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pupil   hole in iris, shrinks and expands due to amount of light  
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canal of shlemn vein   hole that leads to internal ear  
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sclera   whites of eyes  
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astigmatism   irregular shape of cornea  
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glaucoma   when canal of shlemn vein gets this happens progressively over time hurts.  
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cones   color of vision makes up 1 of 20  
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rods   only lets you see black and whites of eye that makes up 20  
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phobia's ventralis   90 percent of cones are located here  
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middle ear   captures sound3 bones passing vibrations physically  
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outer ear   captures sound  
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inner ear   directs vibrations to auditory nerve  
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auricle   sticks out , bumps determining to where sound goes  
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external auditory meatus   hole down through the ear, that vibraes  
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tympanic membrane   passes vibrations  
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tympanic cavity   leads down to eustaition tube that leads to throat  
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malleus   hammer  
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incus   anvil  
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stapes   stirrup  
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middle ear 3 parts action   physically pass vibration along, only if they touch  
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oval window   to vestibule fluid  
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semicircular canal   has liquid in it hat controls balance  
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cochlea   fluid inside tubes contains round window  
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round window   is made up of hairs cells in tectorial membrane helping to determine pitch  
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macular degeneration   gradually losing good vision until blindness  
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maculalutea   area of best vision  
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