Hooper, Robert [Hrsg.]: The Anatomist's Vade-Mecum: Containing The Anatomy, Physiology, Morbid Appearances, &c. Of The Human Body ; The Art of making Anatomical Preparations, &c. To which are added Anatomical, Physiological, Medical, And Surgical Examinations For Students (London, 1811)

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and another branch of the third pair, which form a ganglion
that supplies the bulb.

The muscles of the eye-ball are described in Myology.

Use. The use oftheeyeis to receive, refract, and unite the
rays of light into a focus, and paint the objects on the retina.
See Vision.

Diseased appearances.—Eyebroics. Eyebrows wanting?
called madarosis.

Eyelashes. A double set, called distichiasis.

Eyelids. A growing together, called anchyblepharum—
adhesion to the globe of the eye, called symbleplwrvm—in-
flammation, or blepharophlhalmia— osdema— emphysema—■
atheroma—sarcoma—scirrhus—cancer—hordeolum, or stye—
a pellucid vesicle, or hydatid—warts—a turning outwards of
the eyelid, or ectropium—a turning inwards, or entropium—
a thickening of the margin, or tylosis.

Lachrymal passages. Obstruction of the ducts—dropsy of
the saccus lachiymalis—fistula lachrymalis—tumour on the
outside of the sac, or anchylops.

Caruncula lachiymalis. An enlargement, or excrescence,
called encanthus—wanting, or rhyas.

Conjunctive membrane. Inflammation, or ophthalmia—vc-
sicles, or phlyctence—a hard tubercle adhering to it, or pa-
pula.

Cornea transforms, A morbid thickness and opacity, or
staphyloma—abscess, or onyx—too great a convexity, causing
shortness of sight, or myops—too flat, causing presbyops, or
Jong sight.

Bulb of the eye. Cancer—a protrusion, or ophthalmoptosis.
Iris. No pupil, or synezesis.