Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Aqueous humour

The clear fluid filling the anterior and posterior chambers of the eyeball.

Key points

• Ciliary processes → posterior chamber → pupil → anterior chamber → canal of Schlemm.
• Nourishes the cornea and lens.
• Blocked drainage = glaucoma.
• Aqueous chambers: split mesoderm (like subarachnoid space).
• Ciliary processes → posterior chamber → pupil → anterior chamber → canal of Schlemm.

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF p. 1600
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 19, PDF p. 357
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 21, PDF p. 382

More from the head and neck

• Arteries of the face
• Arytenoid cartilage
• Arytenoid muscles
• Cerebellum
• Cerebrum
• Cervical plexus
• Ciliary body
• Common carotid artery
• Common tendinous ring
• Cornea
• Corniculate and cuneiform cartilages
• Corpus callosum

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