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Here is a quick mnemonic “EYE MOVEMENT to remember about Human Visual System

This can be valuable for patients as well as medical doctors, nurses & students doing their clinical rounds. You can also find it very useful for med exams like USMLE, MBBS, NEET PG, FMGE, NExT, MCAT & NCLEX exams

Human Visual System : How To Remember Easily ?

  • E – Efficient means for assimilation of information
  • Y – Yielding capture of images focused by the cornea and lens
  • E – Eye, a part of the brain banished to the periphery
  • M – Membrane in the back of the eye, the retina
  • O – Operate, rods in dim illumination, cones in daylight
  • V – Visual acuity provided by cones in the fovea
  • E – Energy converted into neuronal signals
  • M – Million rods and cones in the human retina
  • O – Optic nerve transmitting sensory information
  • V – Visual centers in the brain receiving the image
  • E – Exit of ganglion cell axons at the optic disc
  • M – Majority of fibers synapse on cells in the lateral geniculate body
  • E – Efferent motor system controlling eye movements
  • N – Neural substrate for visual perception
  • T – Targets in the brain reached by ganglion cell axons

Mnemonic : EYE MOVEMENT

Dr. Arin Nandi

Passionate About Medical Science & Helping Future Doctors Achieve Top Ranks In Medical Exams. He is professionally a dentist as well as a public health expert from JIPMER working in govt.health department
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