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The eye acounts for what percentage of the environmental perception?
70%
The eyes are the most complex organs that you have except your?
BRAIN
Your eyes are composed of more than blank million working parts
2
The average person blinks how many times per min?
12 times per/min
How many times per day do we blink?
10,000
How many bits of information can your eyes process every hour?
36,000
What percent of your eyeball is exposed to the outside world
1/6
Is color blindness more likely in males or females and how many times more likely
males/ 10
The blank is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment
eye
Your eyelashes have an average life span of blank months
5
The eye can distinguish blank shades of the gray
500
People generally read blank slower from a computer screen than from paper
25%
Men are able to read blank print better than women can
fine
why do our nose get runny when we are crying
tears from the eye drain into the nose
Your eye will focus on about blank things per second
50
Your retina contains blank million rods and blank million cones
12;8
Your eye lid is comprised of? and it does what?
Epithelial tissue; protect the outermost layer of the eye
Conjunctive lines the what eye lid?
posterior/lines anterior surface of the eyeball
What is the clinical name for pink eye and what is it?
Conjunctivitis;bacterial infection
Lacrimal gland is superior or inferior to each eye?
Superiolateral
Lacrimal gland does what?
Secretes dilutes saline solution for lubrication
Is the eyeball hallow or dense?
hallow
Eyeball is filled with blank and blank which does what?
aqueous, vitreous humors; to maintain shape
Sclera is made of what
connective tissue
Sclear is less sensitive to touch because …
of low concentration os neurons
Cornea is the…
transparent window to eye
Cornea is where light passes through
to activate the nervous system
Cornea is sensitive because?
it is a defensive line loaded with neurons making it very sensitive
Iris is what part of the eye?
pigmented
Iris is a blank muscle
Involuntary
The iris acts as a diaphragm to
control light entering the middle and posterior eye
Pupil is what
nothing more than a opening or space into the eye ball appears as black
Lens is transparent structure in the eye and is used for what?
Can change shape to modify focus to see various distances.
Retina holds what?
photoreceptors
What do the rods do?
function in less intense light (night vision)/peripheral vision
What do the cones do?
responsible for color vision
Blue is what type of color vision?
short
Green is what type of color vision?
medium
Red is what type of color vision?
long
What does the optic nerve do?
connects retina to brain stem
What is colorblindness
inability or decreased ability to see color or perceive color differences
How does color blindness happen?
development of cones, travels on x chromosome
Who is more likely to get color blindness?
males
What is cataracts?
clouding that develops in the lens or in its envelope
How does cataracts start?
as simple as decreased clarity and may progress to blindness without treatment
What is Glaucoma?
When the optic nerve or retina is damaged due to increased pressure to the aqueous humor
Is Glaucoma permenant?
can permanently damage vision in the affected eye and lead to blindness if left untreated.
What is astigmatism?
vision condition that causes blurred vision and is very common
Why do astigmatisms occur?
irregular shape of the cornea or abnormal curvature of the lens