Anterior segment - ocular surface

Sclera

  • Fibrous coat of eyeball
  • Relatively avascular
  • Almost acellular apart from a few fibroblasts
  • 70% water
  • Thickest posteriorly around optic nerve (lamina cribrosa) 
  • Thinner towards the equator and thinnest around EOM insertions
  • The four vortex veins penetrate the sclera behind the…
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Conjunctivitis