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zooch.15 part 2

special senses part 2

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responsible for color vision cones
Change in shape of lens to focus image on retina accomodation
Secrete aqueous humor ciliary process
Space extending from iris to ciliary body and lens posterior chamber
Contains muscles that adjust diameter of pupil iris
Part of vascular tunic covered by sclera choroid
nearsightedness myopia
Outer layer of eye, consists of cornea (clear) and sclera (white) fibrous tunic
Covers inner surface of eyelids palpebral conjunctiva
Photoreceptor cells responsible for vision under dim light conditions rods
Molecule that straightens when light strikes visual pigments retinal
Passageway where aqueous humor is reabsorbed into blood canal of Schlemm (scleral venous sinus)
Blind spot where optic nerve leaves retina optic disc
Compound from which visual pigments are derived rhodopsin
Modified sebaceous glands inside eyelid tarsal (Meibomian) glands
Optic nerve --> optic chiasm --> optic tracts --> lateral geniculate nucleus of thalamus --> optic radiation --> primary visual cortex visual pathway to brain
Bending of light rays refraction
Transparent proteins that fill lens cells crystallins
normal vision emmetropia
Space extending from cornea to iris anterior chamber
Cells whose axons form optic nerve ganglion cells
Yellow spot in retina which contains fovea (area of sharpest vision in the retina macula lutea
farsightedness hyperopia
Part of visual pathway where half of nerve fibers cross over to opposite side optic chiasm
Reaction in which retinal dissociates from opsin bleaching
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