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  2. Orbit (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of eye with surrounding superior, oblique, medial and inferior rectus muscles; supraorbital foramen shown above the eye, and inferior orbital fissure inferolaterally. In anatomy, the orbit is the cavity or socket/hole of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated. "Orbit" can refer to the bony socket, [1] or it can also ...

  3. Human eye - Wikipedia

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    Human eye. Human eye. The eye of the right side of the face, showing its visible components - a white sclera, a light brown iris, and the black pupil, in its orbit surrounded by the lids and lashes. 1. vitreous body 2. ora serrata 3. ciliary muscle 4. ciliary zonules 5.

  4. Eye - Wikipedia

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    Eye. An eye is a sensory organ that allows an organism to perceive visual information. It detects light and converts it into electro-chemical impulses in neurons (neurones). It is part of an organism's visual system . In higher organisms, the eye is a complex optical system that collects light from the surrounding environment, regulates its ...

  5. Exophthalmos - Wikipedia

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    Exophthalmos (also called exophthalmus, exophthalmia, proptosis, or exorbitism) is a bulging of the eye anteriorly out of the orbit. Exophthalmos can be either bilateral (as is often seen in Graves' disease) or unilateral (as is often seen in an orbital tumor). Complete or partial dislocation from the orbit is also possible from trauma or ...

  6. Compound eye - Wikipedia

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    Compound eye. A compound eye is a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It may consist of thousands of ommatidia, [ 1] which are tiny independent photoreception units that consist of a cornea, lens, and photoreceptor cells which distinguish brightness and color. The image perceived by this arthropod eye is a ...

  7. Angular diameter - Wikipedia

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    Angular diameter: the angle subtended by an object. The angular diameter, angular size, apparent diameter, or apparent size is an angular distance describing how large a sphere or circle appears from a given point of view. In the vision sciences, it is called the visual angle, and in optics, it is the angular aperture (of a lens ).

  8. Binocular vision - Wikipedia

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    Binocular vision. Principle of binocular vision with horopter shown. In biology, binocular vision is a type of vision in which an animal has two eyes capable of facing the same direction to perceive a single three-dimensional image of its surroundings. Binocular vision does not typically refer to vision where an animal has eyes on opposite ...

  9. Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.It is a gas giant with a mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU (778.5 Gm), with an orbital period of 11.86 years.