Common Eye Problems, Diseases, and Disorders
In this article, we explore the top 25 most common eye problems, diseases, and disorders, including diagrams, definitions, and explanations for common eye diseases. The eye is a small but unique organ of the human body with the ability to visualize a lifetime of events.
Our eyes are important organs of the human body and deliver the visual system. They provide us with vision in order to process visual details and images, detect and convert light into electrochemical impulses fired into neurons. In this article, we explore with the most common eye problems, diseases, and disorders that can affect our sight.
Anatomy of the Eye: Labelled Diagram
When you look into the mirror, the most noticeable parts of the eye include the following:
- Iris: The iris is where people note the different eye colors we have. Brown, blue, green, black, hazel.
- Cornea: The cornea is a clear dome lying right over the iris.
- Pupil: The pupil is the black circular opening in the iris that dilates to let the light in, especially in a dark room, and constricts into pinpoint pupils when looking at a light source like the sun.
- Sclera: The sclera is the white part of our eyeballs.
- Conjunctiva: The conjunctiva is a tissue layer that covers the entire surface of our eyes, except for the cornea.
Disorders and Diseases of Vision: Diplopia, Hyperopia, Myopia, Nyctalopia, Amblyopia, Presbyopia, Macular Degeneration
dimness of vision or partial loss of sight without detectable disease of the eye
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Eyelid Disorders and Diseases: Blepharitis, Blepharoptosis, Chalazion, Keratitis
Cornea Disorders and Diseases: Astigmatism, Corneal Abrasion, Refractive Disorder, Xerophthalmia
irregular focusing of light rays caused by a nonspheroid cornea
Eye Disorders and Diseases: Nystagmus vs Strabismus
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Eye Disorders and Diseases: Cataract, Conjunctivitis, Exopthalmos, Hordeolum
opaqueness, cloudiness of the lens of the eye
Retina Disorders and Diseases: Glaucoma, Detached Retina, Retinal Detachment, Retinopathy
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this is a really “insightful” article 😉 will be thinking about this one when I wake up in the mornings.
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Thank you Percy!! Glad to do so 🙂
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Hahaha, funny! The cat and the eye jokes got me. Great humor and educational! Thanks for sharing, Athena. 🙂
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Thank youuu! Glad that you enjoyed the article and jokes 🙂
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Excellent article and very helpful information!
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Thank you Jason! 😀 Glad it helped!
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Great article! 👀👍
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