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Gross Anatomy of the Eye

Helga E. Kolb  1
Helga Kolb, Eduardo Fernandez, Bryan Jones, Ralph Nelson
, editors.
In: Webvision: The Organization of the Retina and Visual System [Internet]. Salt Lake City (UT): University of Utah Health Sciences Center; 1995.
[updated ].
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Gross Anatomy of the Eye

Helga E. Kolb.
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The vertebrate eye is composed of easily recognized structures such as pupil and iris, and other internal structures only seen with specialized medical equipment. In this chapter we provide the images and nomenclature describing eye structures, including eye muscles. There is also a brief description of how these structures develop in the first years of life.

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