EYE: v3

AQUEOUS HUMOR: Right behind the clear cornea of your eye that you can touch is the smaller, first chamber of liquid in the eye, the aqueous humor.  The liquid sits behind the clear cornea and on top of your colored iris and also goes BEHIND the colored iris.

AQUEOUS HUMOR: This aqueous humor fluid is much thicker than the fluid in the other larger pool of liquid in the back of your eyes,  the vitreous humor.

AQUEOUS HUMOR: The ciliary muscle–which is behind the iris– pulls on the strings (the zonules) which hold the lens. This lens-moving muscle has a patch of cells on its surface which makes the aqueous humor fluid continuously.

AQUEOUS HUMOR:  New aqueous humor with fresh supplies of oxygen and food is added constantly on the back side of the iris. These new supplies flow from the back side of the iris through the black pupil tunnel to the front of the iris. Crazy!!!

R+C FEEDING: Rods and cones each have a million floors called optic discs. They have opsin proteins woven into the floors like twisting snakes.

R+C FEEDING: After the opsin proteins are “triggered” by light, they need to be reset for the next blast of light. The resetting takes place faster than a second.

R+C FEEDING:  The rod and cone power supply is the blood-red choroid layer hiding behind them. This is the densest axon network of the body.

R+C FEEDING: Red eye in a photograph is your BLOOD! The “pre-flash” some cameras give off is to get your eye to close its pupil somewhat to reduce the red-eye effect.

R+C FEEDING: The floors of the rods and the cones are slowly destroyed by infrared light.

R+C FEEDING: To keep you from becoming blind, new floors are continually being added to the end of the rods and cones which face the light.  Every 4 hours, a floor of each rod and cone is pinched off and dissolved by the back of your eye.