The lens, or crystalline lens, is a transparent biconvex structure in most land vertebrate eyes. Relatively long, thin fiber cells make up the majority...

Eye disease Eye injury Eye movement Lens (vertebrate anatomy) Nictitating membrane Ophthalmology Orbit (anatomy) Simple eye in invertebrates Tapetum...

complications of cataract surgery. Lens (vertebrate anatomy) "Mode of Discovering the Proper Capsule of the Crystalline Lens". The London Medical and Physical...

very quick changes in lens shape are made. Direct experimental proof of any lens model is necessarily difficult as the vertebrate lens is transparent and...

respects, fish anatomy is different from mammalian anatomy. However, it still shares the same basic body plan from which all vertebrates have evolved:...

Greek medical work written by unknown authors. Aristotle described vertebrate anatomy based on animal dissection. Praxagoras identified the difference between...

account in vertebrates. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-662-05014-9. Paré, Jean (11 January 2006). Reptile basics: Clinical anatomy 101 (PDF)...

In anatomy a chiasm is the spot where two structures cross, forming an X-shape (from Greek letter χ, Chi). Examples of chiasms are: A tendinous chiasm...

Marine vertebrates are vertebrates that live in marine environments. These are the marine fish and the marine tetrapods (primarily seabirds, marine reptiles...

Photoreceptor can refer to: In anatomy/cell biology: Photoreceptor cell, a photosensitive cell in the retina of vertebrate eyes Simple eye in invertebrates...

in chameleons is higher in a scaled comparison to all other vertebrates eyes. While the lens are negative, the cornea of chameleon eyes are positive, meaning...

Mark A. (17 August 2016). "Pigmented anatomy in Carboniferous cyclostomes and the evolution of the vertebrate eye". Proceedings of the Royal Society...

Tullimonstrum was a stem-vertebrate based on its eye anatomy. Close examination revealed that the animal had a camera-like eye, with preserved lenses and the presence...

human anatomy: Human anatomy – scientific study of the morphology of the adult human. It is subdivided into gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy. Gross...

A mammal (from Latin mamma 'breast') is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia (/məˈmeɪli.ə/). Mammals are characterized by the presence of milk-producing...

" pp. 396–397 Romer, Alfred Sherwood; Parsons, Thomas S. (1977). The Vertebrate Body. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. p. 462. ISBN 0-03-910284-X...

and tuatara is analogous to the cornea, lens, and retina of the lateral eyes of vertebrates. In most vertebrates, exposure to light sets off a chain reaction...

eyes are similar to the eyes of terrestrial vertebrates like birds and mammals, but have a more spherical lens. Birds and mammals (including humans) normally...

that fills the space between the lens and the retina of the eyeball (the vitreous chamber) in humans and other vertebrates. It is often referred to as the...

In anatomy, a crystallin is a water-soluble structural protein found in the lens and the cornea of the eye accounting for the transparency of the structure...

of Vertebrate Respiration. Harvard University Press. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-0-674-15250-2. Wake, Marvalee H. (1992). Hyman's Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy. University...

Comparative Anatomy and Developmental Biology of Vertebrates (Zoology Book) Biological Systems in Vertebrates, Vol. 1 Functional Morphology of the Vertebrate Respiratory...

parietal eye (third eye, pineal eye) is a part of the epithalamus in some vertebrates. The eye is at the top of the head; is photoreceptive; and is associated...

optical arrangement which has a single lens without the sort of elaborate retina that occurs in most vertebrates. These eyes are called "simple" to distinguish...

in vertebrates, bird's eyes are protected by a third transparent movable membrane. The eye's internal anatomy is similar to that of other vertebrates, but...

Sobotta : atlas of human anatomy (15th ed.). München: Elsevier/Urban & Fischer. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-7234-3733-8. "Eye (Vertebrate)". Gale Virtual Reference...

ISBN 978-0-521-33792-2. Marvalee H. Wake (15 September 1992). Hyman's Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy. University of Chicago Press. pp. 583–. ISBN 978-0-226-87013-7. Retrieved...

structures of a circulatory system that transport blood throughout a vertebrate's body. Blood vessels transport blood cells, nutrients, and oxygen to most...

both misspellings of the South African Pareiasaurus. In 1930, Soviet vertebrate paleontologist Aleksandra Paulinovna Anna Hartmann-Weinberg said that...

range, or the eye is modified with artificial lenses or deprived of clear form vision. In lower vertebrates, this kind of myopia seems to be reversible...