Guide to the Eye | Caremark Health Resources

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References

The Human Body: An Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function and Disorders. Charles Clayman, MD, editor-in-chief. Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., New York 1995.

Vision: From Photon to Perception (1999). National Academy of Sciences Colloquium http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309068347/html/21.html

Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildlife Notes: Owls http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=458&q=150790

eMedicine Health: Anatomy of the Eye

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/anatomy_of_the_eye/article_em.htm

Cleveland Clinic: Tour of the Eye

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/eye/patient_info/eyeanatomy.asp

National Eye Institute: Facts About the Cornea and Corneal Disease

http://www.nei.nih.gov/health/cornealdisease/

National Eye Institute: Glaucoma

http://www.nei.nih.gov/health/glaucoma/glaucoma_facts.asp

National Eye Institute: Diabetic Retinopathy

http://www.nei.nih.gov/health/diabetic/retinopathy.asp

MayoClinic.com: Cataracts

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cataracts/DS00050

JAMA Patient Page: Age Related Macular Degeneration

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/295/20/2438

Dictionary of Eye Terminologyby Barbara Cassin. Triad Publishing http://www.eyeglossary.net

How Vision Works by Carl Bianco, MD. http://health.howstuffworks.com/eye1.htm

Reviewed by Michael Potter, MD, an attending physician and associate clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who is board certified in family practice.

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