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The cornea gets some oxygen through the water in the eye known as the aqueous humor, all other oxygen is from the environment. That's why it's a big deal that contacts allow oxygen through them to the eye.
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What is the difference between dissolve oxygen and oxygen?
Dissolve oxygen is when oxygen is dissolved and oxygen is just normal oxygen!
How does oxygen feel?
Oxygen, you can not feel oxygen
The smallest particle of oxygen that behaves like oxygen is an oxygen?
An oxygen atom
What gas in the air do you need to make fire?
Oxygen. It supports combustion.
What is the difference between atomic oxygen and molecular oxygen?
Atomic oxygen is many oxygen atoms (O). Molecular oxygen is lots of oxygen molecules which are each made of two oxygen atoms bonded together (O2).
How do your eyes get oxygen?
Oxygen first dissolves in the tears and then diffuses throughout the cornea to keep it healthy
Why do your eyes get bloodshot when you are tired?
Insufficient oxygen supply to the cornea, basically.
WHAT part of the human body absorbs oxygen directly from the air?
cornea of eye
Give the name of the process which makes lactic acid in the cornea cells in the absence of oxygen?
Anaerobic respiration
Which part of your eye recives no blood at all?
The cornea contains no blood vessels because it is retaining transparency is the most important thing. Since there is no blood supply, the cornea receives oxygen directly from the air.
What does the cornea do and what is it for?
what is the cornea and what does it do
Why do you close your eyes when you sleep?
It is believed that the eyes close when we sleep because having the eyelids closed prevents the sclera and cornea from drying out or becoming accidentally scratched, and also prevents oxygen diffusion from the inside of the eyelid to the sclera and cornea.
What to do when the cornea is shattered?
Cornea transplant
What part of the human body contains an iris and a cornea?
welll it is the lower cornea
How is the cornea shaped?
The cornea is dome shaped
What is the singular form of corneae?
Cornea.
Which part of a donors's eye can be transplanted in other's?
The cornea is the normally transplanted part of the eye.
