Anterior Anatomy
The thin, transparent, outermost layer of the eye.
What is the cornea?
The light sensitive tissue in the back of the eye, like the film in a camera!
What is the retina?
A device that delivers UV light in a specific pattern.
What is an LDD?
When light focuses behind the retina.
What is hyperopia?
The tissue that dilates or constricts to control light entering the eye, also gives us our eye color!
What is the iris?
A jelly-like fluid that fills the inside of the eye.
What is the vitreous?
A silicone lens that is adjustable by UV light.
What is an LAL?
When light focuses in front of the retina.
What is myopia?
A transparent structure behind the iris that focuses light.
What is the crystalline lens?
A bundle of about a million nerve fibers that relay information to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
Two weeks in Aliso Viejo, CA when you are hired as a CTS.
What is "in house"
When light doesn't focus to a single point because of the shape of the cornea.
What is astigmatism?
The space between the posterior of the iris and the ciliary body.
What is the sulcus?
The area of the brain responsible for visual processing.
What is the occipital lobe?
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What is OJT?
20 feet, or 6 meters in Europe.
What is optical infinity?