TY - JOUR
T1 - Mechanism of accommodation
T2 - A review of theoretical propositions
AU - Ovenseri-Ogbomo, Godwin O.
AU - Oduntan, Olalekan A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper forms part of the work for the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Optometry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal undertaken by G.O. Ovenseri-Ogbomo under the supervision of Professor O.A. Oduntan
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018. The Author(s).
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/5/19
Y1 - 2015/5/19
N2 - Accommodation is the process by which the human eye changes its focus to see objects at varying distances from the eye. For nearly 300 years, scientists have investigated and presented various views on the mechanism of accommodation. The purpose of this review is to present both the historical and contemporary theories that underpin the process of accommodation. Keywords such as ocular accommodation, mechanism of accommodation and accommodative mechanism were used to retrieve published material on the subject. Classical propositions by Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz, amongst others, are presented.
AB - Accommodation is the process by which the human eye changes its focus to see objects at varying distances from the eye. For nearly 300 years, scientists have investigated and presented various views on the mechanism of accommodation. The purpose of this review is to present both the historical and contemporary theories that underpin the process of accommodation. Keywords such as ocular accommodation, mechanism of accommodation and accommodative mechanism were used to retrieve published material on the subject. Classical propositions by Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz, amongst others, are presented.
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U2 - 10.4102/aveh.v74i1.21
DO - 10.4102/aveh.v74i1.21
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85057239522
SN - 2413-3183
VL - 74
JO - African Vision and Eye Health
JF - African Vision and Eye Health
IS - 1
M1 - a28
ER -