Question

What are the anatomical factors causing corneal transparency?

Answer 1

Anatomical factors:

1. The combination of extrinsic factors, such as training errors and environmental circumstances, and intrinsic or anatomical ones, such as bone alignment of the extremities, flexibility deficits, and ligamentous laxity, predisposes athletes to overuse injuries.
2. Physiological and anatomical factors contribute to corneal transparency.
3. The anatomical factors are as follows:
   1. Descemet's and Bowman's – membrane homogeneity
   2. Interspaces — the absence of blood vessels
   3. Corneal stromal cells are few and flattened in the lamellae.
   4. The corneal lamellae are arranged in a regular pattern. Diffraction gratings are created as a result of this periodicity.