Anatomy Chapter 15: Special Senses
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Helps maintain the intraocular pressure: located in the anterior part of the eye.
Aquous Humor
The vascular coat of the eyeball: deeply pigmented .
Choroid
The structure most responsible for focusing light rays that enter the eye.
Lens
connects the middle ear with the nasopharynx
Pharyngotympanic tube
The sensory layer of the eye.
Retina
the white, outer tough connective tissue covering eyeball.
Sclera
The muscle responsible for altering the shape of the lens.
ciliary muscle
Area of greatest visual acuity
fovea centralis
a muscle that moves the eyeball
rectus muscle
Speparates external auditory canal from the middle ear.
tympanic membrane