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Technique of Eye Dissections · Frederic A. Woll — chapter 12 of 17 · ~303 words · public domain

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Entrance of optic nerve, 43

Enucleated eye, 104

Enucleating orbital contents, 102-104

Enucleation of orbital contents, 97-105 of orbital contents, material for, 97

Epithelium of cornea, 52

Equipment, 17-24

Examination, ophthalmoscopic, 106 preparing eye for ophthalmoscopic, 106-110 smoothing out cornea for ophthalmoscopic, 109

Excavated posterior half, 46, 47 sagittal, 90

Extrinsic muscles, other, 118 muscles, preserving, 119

Eye, anterior half of the, 49 contents, emptying, 32, 33 cutting it for sagittal section, 87-89 for dissection of hyaloid, etc., preparing, 26, 27 in half, cutting, 38, 39 interior of, 38 posterior half of the, 40 preparing for dissecting interior, 38 preparing it for dissection, to show the three tunics, in situ, 120 preparing for isolating choroid, 62 preparing for isolating retina, 74, 75 preparing for ophthalmoscopic examination of, 106-110 preparing for sagittal section of, 86 sagittal section of, 86 seeing interior of, 110 vertical section of, 86 cutting window in, 110

Eyelids, 95, 105

Eyes, sheep and beef, 26, 27

Fibres of lens, 56, 57 network of vitreous, 41, 42

Fluid, perichoroidal, 40, 46

Folding retina by blowing air through blowpipe, 81, 82

Forcing out vitreous, using blowpipe in, 78-81

Fornices, conjunctival, 113

Gland, dissecting lacrimal, 114 lacrimal, 114 racemose construction, 114

Glands and ducts, meibomian, 96

Glass blowpipe, 35

Glassware, 21

Half, anterior, 49 cutting eye in, 38, 39

Half, excavated posterior, 46 posterior, 40 posterior, excavated, 46 preparing eye for dissecting interior, 38 removing vitreous from anterior, 49 removing vitreous from posterior, 41

Hammer and chisel, use of, 99-101

Humor, aqueous, 51 vitreous, 33

Hyaloid and attachments, demonstration of, 34 artery, 43 body, 41 canal, 43 dissected, 33 membrane, dissection of, 25-33 membrane with contents and attachments intact, removal of, 25 preserving contents of, 32, 33, 34, 36 preserving three tunics and, 123

Image, retinal, 110

Increasing pupillary aperture, 106, 107, 109

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