Hyaloid canal
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| Horizontal section of the eyeball. (Hyaloid canal labeled running through the centre.) |
Hyaloid canal is a small transparent canal running through the vitreous body from the optical nerve disc to the lens; in the fetus it contains a prolongation of the central artery of the retina, the hyaloid artery. Other names: Cloquet's canal, Stilling's canal.[1]
The function of the canal is to provide an adjustable reservoir of mobile liquid which may be easily and rapidly displaced backwards in positive accommodation, forwards in negative accommodation.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "hyaloid canal". mondofacto.com. http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?hyaloid+canal. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
- ^ T. P. Anderson Stuart (29 March 1904). "The function of the hyaloid canal and some other new points in the mechanism of the accommodation of the eye for distance". The Journal of Physiology 31 (1): 38–48. ISSN 0022-3751. PMC 1465472. PMID 16992721. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1465472.
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