retina

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"The retina is like a sheet of cellophane attached to the entire back wall of the eye. The tears usually occur in the periphery where the gel may be tugging on it. If a tear occurs, then fluid inside the eye can travel through the tear and track between the retina and the back wall of the eye thereby separating the retina off the back wall of the eye. This is called a retina detachment. Wherever the retina is detached there is no vision. Since this usually occurs first in the periphery it may be experienced as a total loss of vision in the peripheral field of view as if a curtain is being pulled across the vision from the side and it may advance across the center of vision."

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Date: Feb 23 2014 8:30 PM

What: "The retina consists of many millions of cell types packed together in a tightly knit network spread over the surface of the back of the eye fundus as a thin film of tissue only 1/2 millimeter thick. The retina is like a three layered cake with three layers containing cell bodies of neurons and two filling layers where synapses betwen the neurons occur "

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Date: Feb 23 2014 8:26 PM

What:

"The retina splits into two layers in certain areas. The retina is like plywood with many laminated layers which rarely separate. This is called retinoschisis."

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Date: Feb 23 2014 8:35 PM

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"The retina is like an electronic circuit whose schematics have been lost, whose components have unknown specifications, and whose design is a matter of conjecture. Therefore my lab studies retinal components to determine their specifications, and integrates this knowledge into systems-level hypotheses about the overall design of the retina."

Writer: Michael Freed

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Date: Feb 23 2014 8:32 PM