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Q: What is the process by which the lens of the eye changes its curvature?
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Does the lens in the eye have fixed curvature?

The curvature lens of an eye is a transparent structure of eye which works to refract light to be focused on retina. The curvature adjusts according to angle and view therefore it is not fixed.


What is a defective curvature of the cornea and lens of the eye?

the defective curvature on the cornea or lens is called Astigmatism


The curvature of an eye's convex lens is change by?

Muceles


What is the relation of focal length of eye with its curvature?

More the curvature of the eye lens, lesser the focal length is. Lesser the curvature, greater the focal length is


What structure changes its shape to focus light at the back of the eye?

The lens of the eye also called the crystalline lens.


How does the eye lens focus?

Muscles in the eye surrounding the lens contract stretching it out, flattening it; or relax, letting it thicken. These changes in shape refocus the lens.


Which part of the eye changes the shape of the eye?

the cornea protects and shapes the eyeball


What changes in your eye when you look at objects at different?

the lens is changed


What does the lens in an eye do?

Light from a single point of a distant object and light from a single point of a near object being brought to a focus by changing the curvature of the lens. The lens is a transparent, biconvex structure in the eye that, along with the cornea, helps to refract light to be focused on the retina.


What is the process called that causes the eye's lens to re-focus?

This process is called accommodation--the lens focuses images to help make vision clear.


How does lasik eye surgery aid the human eye to see objects?

It changes the shape of the cornea, which changes the focal length. Both the cornea and the lens act together (like a compound camera lens) to focus the image on the retina.


Which structure of the eye changes the direction of light?

The most imortant part of the eye that changes the direction of light is the LENS, though the cornea does do a little of the inital focusing.