The Eye Parts and Definitions

Action- Eye looks down Innervation- Ocumotor nerve (III)

Action- Eye looks medially Innervation- Ocumotor nerve (III)

Action- Eye looks up Innervation- Ocumotor nerve (III)

Action- Eye looks laterally Innervation- Abducens nerve (VI)

Action- Eye rolls looks up and laterally Innervation- Oculomotor nerve (III)

Action- Eye rolls, looks down and laterally Innervation- Trochlear Nerve (IV)

The eyelid- Continuation of the skin. Their continual blinking keeps the surface of the eye lubricated, remove dust and debris

Mass of soft tissue contains glands that produce thick secretions that contribute to the gritty deposits that sometimes appear after a good nights sleep

The epithelium covering the inner surface of the eyelids and the outer surface of the eye. It is a mumucous membrane covered by stratified squamous epithelium

Covers the inner surface of the eyelids

Cover the anterior surface of the eye

The transparent part of the outer fibrous layer of the eye. Allows light into the eye and refracts it. it is about 5-6 layers of avascular cells

produces, distributes and removes tears. Consists of a lacrimal glad with ducts, paired lacrimal canaliculi, a lacrimal sac and a nasolacrimal duct

The pocket created where the palpebral conjunctiva becomes continuous with the ocular conjunctiva

A gland about the size and shape of an almond nestels within a depression of the frontal bone just inside the orbit and superior and lateral to the eyeball. it provides key ingredients and most of the volume of the tears that bathe the conjunctival surfaces