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Eye is like a camera. The external object is seen like the
camera takes the picture of any object. Light enters the eye through a small
hole called the pupil and is focused on the retina, which is like a camera
film. Eye also has a focusing lens, which focuses images from different
distances on the retina. The colored ring of the eye, the iris, controls the
amount of light entering the eye. It closes when light is bright and opens when
light is dim. A tough white sheet called sclera covers the outside of the eye.
Front of this sheet (sclera) is transparent in order to allow the light to
enter the eye, the cornea. Ciliary muscles in ciliary body control the focusing
of lens automatically. Choroid forms the vascular layer of the eye supplying
nutrition to the eye structures. Image formed on the retina is transmitted to
brain by optic nerve. The image is finally perceived by brain. A jelly like
substance called vitreous humor fill the space between lens and retina. The
lens, iris and cornea are nourished by clear fluid, aqueous humor, formed by
the ciliary body and fill the space between lens and cornea. This space is
known as anterior chamber. The fluid flows from ciliary body to the pupil and
is absorbed through the channels in the angle of anterior chamber. The delicate
balance of aqueous production and absorption controls pressure within the eye.
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