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Full redraw: Group labels in accordance with the "Foundational Model Explorer." Added "Macula" and "Uvea" and removed "Zonular fibres." It has given better visibility inside the eye. The eyeball shape and size of different parts of the eye are now real...
Figure drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures, using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches.
The globe of the eye, or bulbus oculi, is the frontmost sensory organ of the human ocular system, going from the cornea at the front, to the anterior part of the optic nerve at the back. More simply, the eyeball itself, as well as the ganglion cells in the retina that eventually transmit visual signals through the optic nerve. [1]
Diagram of a human eye (horizontal section of the right eye) 1. Lens, 2. Zonule of Zinn or Ciliary zonule, 3. Posterior chamber and 4. Anterior chamber with 5. Aqueous humour flow; 6. Pupil, 7. Corneosclera or Fibrous tunic with 8. Cornea, 9. Trabecular meshwork and Schlemm's canal. 10. Corneal limbus and 11. Sclera; 12. Conjunctiva, 13. Uvea ...
The rate of eye evolution is difficult to estimate because the fossil record, particularly of the lower Cambrian, is poor. How fast a circular patch of photoreceptor cells can evolve into a fully functional vertebrate eye has been estimated based on rates of mutation, relative advantage to the organism, and natural selection.
This page lists many-eyed beings in mythology and fiction. The list is meant to include creatures that have multiple eyes on body or on head (or heads); for creatures who have multiple eyes due to having multiple heads, each having two eyes, see polycephaly in mythology.
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The use of zoomorphism served as a decorative element to objects that are typically quite simple in shape and design. The 'Cockerel' diadem, from Calouste Gulbenkian Museum ( Lisbon , Portugal), made between 1897 and 1898 by René Lalique Calligram of a tiger in Arabic , an example of zoomorphic calligraphy