Anatomy of the eye

What is another name for the globe?

What surrounds the globe?

What does the position of the eye relate to?

What is the result of the position of the eye for a predator species?

What is the result of the position of the eye for a prey species?

What do the anterior and posterior poles relate to with the eyeball orientation?

What are the 3 layers of the eyeball, that reflect that it is an embryonic growth from the brain?

What is the fibrous tunic made from?

What is the point where the cornea and sclera meet called?

Give 5 features of the cornea.

What are 2 features that come with the cornea being avascular?

Why is the cornea very sensitive?

What are the pectinate ligaments?

What is another name for the posterior corneal epithelium?

What can be done to heal corneal ulcers?

What can sometimes be found associated with a corneal ulcer?

What is the sclera?

What can be found in the sclera?

What does the cribiform area create?

What is the issue associated with the cribiform area?

What do the anterior ciliary arteries supply?

What are the anterior ciliary arteries and long and short posterior ciliary arteries branches of?

What happens when there is inflammation in the eye?

In the conjunctiva, which of the small visible blood vessels move more freely?

Where is the vascular tunic (uveal tract) located?

What does the vascular tunic do?

What does the iris divide?

What is found in the iris?

What does the colour of the iris depend on?

What is a blue horse iris called?

What can be found in ungulates in their iris?

What happens when there is no pigment at all in the eye?

What doe the muscles in the ciliary body do in primates?

What extends from the ciliary body?

What is another term for zonular fibres?

How is the accommodating power of the lens measured?

What do the ciliary processes produce?

What is the path of the aqueous humour?

What is important about the production and drainage of the aqueous humour?

What affects the is angle of filtration?

What is the innervation of the vascular tunic?

What are being tested by shining a light into the animal's eye?

What is special about the cat cornea and the angle of filtration?

Give 4 symptoms of Horner's syndrome.

What does the choroid do in the vascular tunic?

What is the light reflecting layer in the dorsal fundus of the choroid?

What is a fundus?

How can the optic dis be distinguished?

What is found in the dog fundus with colour diluted?

What is found with a subalbinotic (colour diluted eye)?

What is the fundus of a pig like?

What is the fundus of a small ruminant like?

What is the fundus of an adult ruminant like?

What is the fundus of a horse like?

What 3 structures make up the vascular tunic?

What is the innermost of the layers?

What are the 2 layers of the retina?

Where is the pars ceca retina?

Where is the pars optica retina?

What does the pigment of the retina and choroid allow?

Give 6 cell types that are found in the pars optica retina.

What is the optic disc?

Where is the Vitreous chamber?

What does the vitreous chamber contain?

What are you likely to find in young farm animals in the vitreous chamber?

What is the lens made up of?

What can vary with the structure of the lens between species?

Where is the site of cataracts?

How quickly can a diabetic cataract appear?

What can be done to correct a cataract?

What do the eyes form from embryologically?

How do the eyes develop?

Why are the eye lids of nesting animals fused at birth?

Give 3 clinical relevance of the eye embryology.