Karissa Walter 12/13/15 Anatomy & Physiology I Professor Jenkins Sensory Impairment in Older Adults: Part 2: Vision Loss As adults age there is a persistent declination in age related eye degeneration. Many times this occurs naturally with age, but can also be a result of medical conditions found in older patients. A portion of these medical conditions include macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy. These visual impairments can lead to a need for…
housefly look at the world in quite a different way than humans do. The structure and function of a fly's eye are completely different from humans; therefore they see the motion, shapes and colors differently than humans. Flies also see the light in a different way than humans. Nano-structure of the eyes that gives the ability of a virtually 360 degree all direction vision with only two eyes placed at the front of the head. Military pilots like helicopters and fighter jet pilots often suffer…
After he let me inside, we sat on the couch for a little while and watched Spike Lee’s, Do the Right Thing. As Levi and I sat so close to one another, I felt his body heat. With the lights off and thoughts of Aunt Joyce’s nasty tape playing over and over inside of my head, all I wanted to do was the wrong thing. I really wanted to make a move, but I wasn’t sure of what to do. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to give it a shot. “Hey, you never gave me a tour of your house.” “I’ll…
Myopia is an eye disease that elongates the eyeball and affects the way light reflects off of the eye making it difficult to focus on objects that are further away from the viewer. This is a very common refractive error all around the world. According to a study by the National Eye Institute , Myopia was something that affected 25% of the US population from 1971-72, however, this number grew to 41…
else. HIV advertisements typically have an upset person, a horrifying statistic, or a horrifying needle to scare you into being safer, however this advertisement is showing you a pleasing eye candy…
is a eye disease that may cause you to be blind or lose an eye. According to visionaware glaucoma is a chemical group of eye disease that can wind to sightlessness by damaging the optic nerve. Here is some story behind glaucoma. Glaucoma has been known in medicine since antiquity. According to nbci Hippocrates described “glaykoseis” as blindness which occur in the elderly . the first person to discover glaucoma and the connection between increased tension of the eyeball was the english eye…
Monali Joshi, Group 8. Human Visual System Eyes are the entry purposes of the light that conveys the visual data about the onlooker's surroundings into the human visual system. The approaching light is consumed by the photoreceptors in the retina and changed over to electrochemical signs, and these signs are transferred to the resulting systems of the visual pipeline. The photoreceptor cells change over light into electrochemical signals, and are separated into two sorts, rods and cones, named…
It has been about two decades since the world`s first smartphone was introduced to the general public. Since then the smartphone has been a part of life among most people in the world. Online statistics show that more than one billion smartphones have been sold and are being currently used by people across the globe which may even be more in number due to un-registered number of smartphones sold in the black market. Smartphone operating platforms have innumerable number of applications which…
of makeup. In evidence, “Egyptians lined their eyes with kohl and used the mascara to deepen their lashes,” (History of Mascara). Consequently, this makeup component has been made a constant impact on the world both presently and historically. Other cultures also used this compound, “In Rome, eyelashes that were long, thick, and curled were a sought-after…
The Human Eye One of the most composite and magnificent parts in the body is the human eye. Through eyes, people are able to visually see the world, and all of its wonders and spectacles. In the human body, “eyes are the second most complex organ in the body only behind the brain” (Butler, 2015). All over the world, people have various eye shapes, eye colors, and eye visions. However, unfortunately, there are some people who were either born blind or became blind due to the effects of old…