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    The document summarizes the key parts and functions of the human eye. It describes the eye's ability to detect light via photoreceptive cells in the retina. It outlines the main structures of the eye, including the sclera, choroid, retina, cornea, iris, pupil, lens, suspensory ligaments, ciliary muscles, aqueous humour, vitreous humour and optic nerve. It provides a brief description and function of each part.

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    The document summarizes the key parts and functions of the human eye. It describes the eye's ability to detect light via photoreceptive cells in the retina. It outlines the main structures of the eye, including the sclera, choroid, retina, cornea, iris, pupil, lens, suspensory ligaments, ciliary muscles, aqueous humour, vitreous humour and optic nerve. It provides a brief description and function of each part.

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    The document summarizes the key parts and functions of the human eye. It describes the eye's ability to detect light via photoreceptive cells in the retina. It outlines the main structures of the eye, including the sclera, choroid, retina, cornea, iris, pupil, lens, suspensory ligaments, ciliary muscles, aqueous humour, vitreous humour and optic nerve. It provides a brief description and function of each part.

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    Our Sense of Sight and Light

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    Our Sense of Sight and Light

    • The sense of sight is the ability of the sense


    organ to detect light stimuli.
    • The eyes are the sense organs of sight that are
    sensitive to light.
    • Human eyes are spherical. They are inside bony
    sockets in the skull.
    • Three pairs of muscles control the movement of
    the eyeballs
    • The tear gland produces tears to clear the eyes
    and kill micro organisms.
    Sclera

    Ciliary muscles Choroids

    Suspensory Retina
    ligaments
    Yellow spot
    Iris

    Pupil
    Blind spot
    Aqueous
    humour
    Optic nerve
    Cornea

    Eye lens
    Vitreous
    Conjunctiva humour
    The characteristics and functions of
    the different parts of the human eye

    Structure Characteristic Functions

    Tough, fibrous, outer


    Forms a protective layer round
    Sclera layer that is white,
    the eyeball
    opaque and strong
    The capillaries supply nutrients
    Middle layer that contains and oxygen to the eye.
    Choroids a network of capillaries
    and black pigments The black pigments absorb light
    and prevent reflection of light
    The innermost layer of Receives light stimulus and
    Retina the eyeball. It has cells sends information in the form of
    sensitive to light nerve impulse to the brain
    Structure Characteristic Functions
    The part of the retina that is
    A point on the retina that most sensitive to light.
    Yellow spot
    is directly opposite the Detects the images of objects
    (fovea)
    pupil formed and changes them to
    nerve impulses.
    A point on the retina
    This point on the retina is not
    where the optic nerve
    sensitive to light.
    Blind Spot leaves the eye.
    Images falling on this spot
    There are no light-
    cannot be detected
    sensitive cells here
    Allows light to enter the eye
    The part of the sclera
    Cornea that is transparent at the Helps to focus light onto the
    front of the eye retina by bending the light rays
    passing through it.
    Controls the size of the pupil
    The coloured part of the
    Iris and hence the amount of light
    eye around the pupil
    entering the eye
    Structure Characteristic Functions

    The opening at the front Allows light to pass into the eye
    Pupil of the eye that is Controls the amount of light that
    surrounded by the iris enters the eye
    Bends and focuses the light to
    form an image on the retina.
    Biconvex, transparent
    Eye lens The thickness of the lens can
    and elastic
    be altered to focus near and
    distant objects
    Strong membranes that Holds the lens in place and
    Suspensory
    connect the lens to the connects it to the ciliary
    ligaments
    ciliary muscles. muscles.
    Contracts and relaxes to
    Muscles formed from
    Ciliary change the thickness of the
    the anterior end of the
    muscles lens. This change the focal
    choroid
    length of the lens.
    Structure Characteristic Functions
    A watery, transparent Helps to focus the image onto
    fluid that fills the the retina.
    Aqueous
    space between the Helps to maintain the shape
    humour
    cornea and the eye of the eye and the pressure in
    lens the eye
    A thick jelly-like, Helps keep the shape of the
    Vitreous transparent fluid that eye spherical
    humour fills up the space
    behind the eye lens Bends light onto the retina

    The nerve that Sends nerve impulse from the


    Optic nerve connects the retina to retina to the brain to be
    the brain interpreted.

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