Eye Anatomy

Questions

These are open questions. Do message me if you have something to say.

  • Does the eye-ball float or sink in water?
  • With its 3 coats - fibrous, vascular (uvea), and nervous (retina) - which other body part does the eyeball resemble?
  • Which solid structures/layers in the eye are transparent? (I can think of 3)
  • Is the bulbar conjunctiva attached to the sclera, the limbus, or the cornea?
  • What separates bulbar conjuctiva from sclera? What happens to this separation when the conjunctiva gets attached?
  • Why does the surface of the limbus area appear smooth? Why doesn’t cornea look like a contact lens?
  • Why is Tenon’s capsule also called fascia bulbi? Does it move when the eyeball moves?
  • What are check ligaments? Why are they called so?
  • What is the suspensory ligament of eyeball (Lockwood’s ligament)? How is it different from a check ligament?
  • Where does local anaesthetic solution instilled in “sub Tenon’s block” reach?

Thus begins ophthalmology