retina
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Structure
- The innermost of the three tunics of the eyeball.
- It consists of three parts:
- It contains:
- the photosensitive layer of rods & cones & their neural connections that gather light & convert it into electrical nerve impulses, transmitted through the optic nerve.
- retinal pigment epithelium & its basal lamina called Bruch's membrane, which together maintain the integrity of the barrier between the choroid & the retina
Pathology
Diagnostic procedures
- funduscopy & retinal imaging facilitates
- identification of retinal disease
- estimation of retinal age[2]
More general terms
Additional terms
- central retinal artery (Zinn artery)
- central retinal vein
- retinal disease
- retinal hemorrhage (RHe)
- retinal pigment epithelium detachment (retinal detachment)
- retinitis pigmentosa (RP)
Components
- stratum moleculare; plexiform layer; molecular layer
- retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)
- macula retinae, macula lutea, macula, area centralis or punctum luteum
References
- ↑ Huang J, West Los Angeles VAMC, March 18, 2003
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ninomiya T, Hanyuda A, Kiyota N et al High-accuracy retinal age prediction via fundus-based multitask learning reveals the effect of systemic disease. Commun Med (Lond). 2026 Apr 8. PMID: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41951870 Free article.