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How serious is retina problem?
Untreated, some retinal diseases can cause severe vision loss or blindness.
Is the retina and optic nerve the same?
The retina converts light that enters into your eye into electrical signals your optic nerve sends to your brain which creates the images you see. It's a key part of your vision. The retina is the layer at the very back of your eyeball.
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What are signs of disease on the retina?
Symptoms of retinal diseases include: Eye floaters and flashes. Blurred or altered vision. Blind spots in your central or peripheral vision (vision to the sides of your central vision).
What is optic retina?
Listen to pronunciation. (REH-tih-nuh) The light-sensitive layers of nerve tissue at the back of the eye that receive images and sends them as electric signals through the optic nerve to the brain.
The retina is a layer of photoreceptors cells and glial cells within the eye that captures incoming photons and transmits them along neuronal pathways as both ...
Aug 8, 2023 · The retina is the innermost layer in the eye that is responsible for the visual processing that turns light energy from photons into ...
Apr 27, 2023 · The retina is the light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of the eyeball. Images that come through the eye's lens are focused on the ...
It is located near the optic nerve. The purpose of the retina is to receive light that the lens has focused, convert the light into neural signals, and send ...
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