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RETINA CILIARY BODY

-made up of three cell types: - A circumferential structure which bulges into the eye
between the ora serrata and the limbus
- neurones
- Represents the forward continuation of the choroid layer
-pigmented epithelial cells of the posterior five-sixths of the wall of the eye and, like it,
is highly vascular and contains a considerable amount of
- neurone support cells melanin pigment.

- neurones are divided into three functional groups:
- photoreceptor cells (rod cells/cone cells)
- cells of afferent fibres passing in the optic nerve
- integrating neurones
- Anteriorly it is continuous with the thirs component of the
uveal tract, the iris, passing in front of the lens.
- Attached to the coronal equator of the lens by the
suspensory ligament which consists of extremely fine
collagenous strands which seldom remain intact after
histological preparation.

- integrating neurones are futher classified

into three:

-bipolar cells

- horizontal cells

- amacrine cells

- main blood supply provided by the central artery of the retina,

a branch of the ophthalmic artery.

-Histologically, the retina is traditionally divided into 10 distinct *dude maikli lng tlga xa..=)
histological layers:

FOVEA

-conical depression in the retina corresponding to the point

where the visual axis of the cornea and lens meets the retina and lying
about 4mm lateral and slightly inferior to the exit of the optic nerve fibres
via the optic disc.

- surrounded by an ovoid yellow area about 1mm wide called

the macula lutea

OPTIC NERVE

- Fibres that penetrate the sclera through the lamina

cribrosa.

- Optic nerve and retina develop embyologically as an

outgrowth of the primitive forebrain, thus the optic nerve is
invested by meninges.

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