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The healthy human adult lens is a biconvex transparent body situated in the anterior compartment of the eye and supported through 360° by the zonule (suspensory ligament of the lens). It lies behind the iris, approximately 3 mm from the cornea. The transparency of the lens, so necessary for accurate focusing of an image, depends on the protein structure within the individual lens cells. These are continually being formed; thus the lens is the only part of the eye to grow throughout life.
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Vernon, S., Corrin, L. (1990). The Lens. In: Perry, J.P., Tullo, A.B. (eds) Care of the Ophthalmic Patient. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3378-2_15
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