When a person rapidly shifts their visual gaze from a distant object on the horizon to read fine print in a book held close to the face, which of the following physiological responses occurs within the mammalian eye to bring the near object into sharp focus on the retina?
- The ciliary muscles contract, causing the suspensory ligaments to slacken, which allows the elastic lens to become thicker and more convex.Cevap
- BThe ciliary muscles relax, causing the suspensory ligaments to tighten, which pulls the lens into a thinner and less convex shape.
- CThe ciliary muscles contract, causing the suspensory ligaments to tighten, which pulls the lens into a thicker and more convex shape.
- DThe ciliary muscles relax, causing the suspensory ligaments to slacken, which allows the lens to become thinner and less convex.
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Near vision accommodation occurs when the ciliary muscles contract, tension on the suspensory ligaments decreases (slackens), and the crystalline lens becomes thicker and more convex to increase light refraction.
Accommodation for near vision requires the eye to increase its refractive power. When focusing on a near object, parasympathetic nerve signals cause the ciliary muscles to contract. Because the ciliary muscle forms a sphincter ring surrounding the lens, its contraction narrows the ring and reduces the outward pull on the suspensory ligaments (zonules of Zinn). With tension removed from the ligaments, the natural elasticity of the lens causes it to recoil into a thicker, more convex shape, sharply focusing divergent light rays onto the retina.
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Mechanism of visual accommodation in the mammalian eye