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_____ is the stimulation of the sensory receptors and the transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system.

Sensation

It is a portion of the body that has very high sensitivity to some particular kind of stimulus.

Sense organ

Nature of the stimulus that produces vision.

Light

The power to react to the stimuli

<p>Sensibility</p> Signup and view all the answers

The ability to conduct and transport messages.

<p>Conductivity</p> Signup and view all the answers

The capacity to react to certain stimuli.

<p>Specificity</p> Signup and view all the answers

The eyes are found within a bony cavity called _____.

<p>Eye socket</p> Signup and view all the answers

Light travels first to the _____. A transparent protective window that is constantly washed by tears making it always clean.

<p>Cornea</p> Signup and view all the answers

It is the colored part of the eyes.

<p>Iris</p> Signup and view all the answers

A dark hole in the middle of the iris, in which light enters.

<p>Pupil</p> Signup and view all the answers

It is located behind the pupil, and acts to bend light to focus them on the retina.

<p>Lens</p> Signup and view all the answers

The ____ is the part of the eyes that changes electromagnetic energy of light into useful information for the brain.

<p>Retina</p> Signup and view all the answers

The two types of light sensitive receptor cells in the retina.

<p>Rods and cones</p> Signup and view all the answers

The center of the retina is the _____, which is the point of the clearest vision in daylight.

<p>Fovea centralis</p> Signup and view all the answers

Light sensitive receptor that is responsible for twilight vision or light of low intensity.

<p>Rods</p> Signup and view all the answers

Light sensitive receptors that are responsible for daylight vision and colors.

<p>Cones</p> Signup and view all the answers

It is a bundle of ganglion cells at the back of the eyeball.

<p>Optic nerve</p> Signup and view all the answers

It collects and summarizes visual information which are gathered and moved out of the back of the eyeball through a bundle of ganglion axons called optic nerve.

<p>Ganglion cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

A point nearly between and behind the two eyes wherein the more impulses from the optic nerves are revered in the brain.

<p>Optic chasm</p> Signup and view all the answers

Reddish purple substance that changes when energized by light causing a chemical reaction.

<p>Rhodopsin</p> Signup and view all the answers

Deficiency in vitamin ___ causes the rhodopsin in the retina to lose its regenerative power.

<p>Vitamin A</p> Signup and view all the answers

This is caused by an abnormal long eyeball so that the image is focused in front of the retina.

<p>Myopia</p> Signup and view all the answers

This happens when the eyeball is so short that the image is focused behind the retina.

<p>Hyperopia</p> Signup and view all the answers

This is the farsightedness of old age which is caused by the slow hardening of the lens.

<p>Presbyopia</p> Signup and view all the answers

This is caused by the uneven curvature of the cornea.

<p>Astigmatism</p> Signup and view all the answers

It is a congenital farsightedness or defect in the eye muscles that caused unequal vision in the two eyes.

<p>Cross eye</p> Signup and view all the answers

Cross eye can be corrected before the child turns ____.

<p>Six</p> Signup and view all the answers

The condition resulting from excessive use of tobacco or alcohol, or over exposure to light producing temporary or permanent blindspot.

<p>Scoma</p> Signup and view all the answers

The part of the eyes where there are neither cones or rods.

<p>Blindspot</p> Signup and view all the answers

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