4. EYEBALL
• CYSTIC STRUCTURE
• INSIDE THE BONY ORBIT
• POLES –CENTRAL POINT ON THE MAXIMAL
CONVEXITIES OF ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR
CURVATURES OF EYEBALL
• EQUATOR-MIDPLANE BETWEEN TWO POLES
5. Generally referred to as a globe, the eyeball is
not a sphere but an oblate spheroid.
6. Equator of the eyeball lies at the mid plane
between the two poles
14. Segments and chambers of eyeball
• Into 2 segments-anterior & posterior
• Anterior segment
-lens & structures anterior to lens
-cornea,iris,anterior & posterior
chambers
• Posterior segment
-structures posterior to lens
-vitreous humor,retina,choroid,optic
disc
15. Visual pathway
Perceives the images and relays the sensations
to the brain (occipital cortex) via visual pathway
16.
17. Orbit,extraocular muscles &
appendages of eye
• Eyeball suspended by extraocular muscles &
fascial sheaths
• Nearer to roof and lateral wall
• Protected anteriorly by eyelids
• Anterior surface of sclera and posterior surface of
lids covered by conjuctiva
• Cornea & conjuctiva kept moist by tears
produced by lacrimal gland
• Eyelids,eyebrows, conjuctiva,lacrimal apparatus-
appendages of eye
18. Blood supply
• Arteries
-ophthalmic artery(branch of internal
carotid artery)
-central retinal.A,arterial circle of zinn
• Veins
-central retinal vein,
-anterior ciliary veins,short posterior
ciliary veins,venae verticosae
24. Surface ectoderm
• The crystalline lens
• Epithelium of the cornea
• Epithelium of the conjunctiva
• Lacrimal gland
• Epithelium of eyelids and its derivatives viz.,
cilia, tarsal glands and conjunctival glands
• Epithelium lining the lacrimal apparatus.
25. Neural ectoderm
• Retina with its pigment epithelium
• Epithelial layers of ciliary body
• Epithelial layers of iris
• Sphincter and dilator pupillae muscles
• Optic nerve (neuroglia and nervous elements
only)
26. Associated paraxial mesenchyme
• Blood vessels of choroid, iris, ciliary vessels,
central retinal artery, other vessels
• Primary vitreous
• Substantia propria, Descemet’s membrane and
endothelium of cornea
• The sclera • Stroma of iris • Ciliary muscle •
Sheaths of optic nerve • Extraocular muscles •
Fat, ligaments and other