The eye in focus: Accommodation and presbyopia

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 207-225

  Charman, W Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Amplitude; Capsule; Ciliary body; Lens

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; AGING; CILIARY BODY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; HUMAN; LENS; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESBYOPIA; REVIEW;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; AGING; CILIARY BODY; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PRESBYOPIA;

EID: 41849108094     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2008.00256.x     Document Type: Review

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