Morphological study of eyeball in developing human foetuses

Mr. Prakash Mane; Dr Anjali Sabnis; Dr Rahul Kharate; Mrs. Padmashree Chougule; Mr. Rajeev Mukhia

Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2016

Morphological study of eyeball in developing human foetuses

Mr. Prakash Mane, Dr Anjali Sabnis, Dr Rahul Kharate, Mrs. Padmashree Chougule, Mr. Rajeev Mukhia

Abstract :

The eyeball is the organ of vision. The eyeball begins to develop at 4th week of gestation and at term, the eyeball is relatively well developed compared to the rest of the body. There have been very few studies on the morphological development of the eyeball during foetal life. So the aim of the present study was to measure the dimensions of the eyeball of human foetuses from 13 weeks to 40 weeks of gestational age. The anteroposterior, transverse and vertical diameters of eyeball were measured by using vernier calliper in 112 eyeballs from 56 foetuses. All the diameters of eyeball increases as gestational age increases linearly up to the 32 weeks after 33 weeks the diameters were increases but slower. The antero–posterior diameters of eyeball were greater than transverse and vertical diameter.