Visually Speaking

Featured Image ©Fran Milner

The eye is the organ of vision. It allows us to see and interpret the shapes, colors, and dimensions of objects in the world by processing the light it reflects or emits. The human eye is also an immensely complex organ with the possibility of errors and various types of injury, infection, and changes due to systemic disease.

Since the eye allows us to visually communicate with the world around us, studying its intricacies is a very important aspect of modern medicine.

Here are a few studies into visual communication, illustrated by the Medical Illustration Sourcebook Artists.

Audra Geras | Geras Healthcare Productions

The Healthy Eye

Gary Carlson

Dry eye leads to red and irritated sclera

Fran Milner

Sectioned view of the normal eye, detailing main structures

Ben Smith

Eye interior

Elaine Kurie

Tear film

Science Source

Visual pathways from the retina of the eye to the brain cortex

Joan Kozel

Nerves of the Eye

Richard Weaver | DWeaver Designs-BioMedical Illustration

Eye cross-section

Erica Beade | MBC Graphics

Digital painting of the anatomy of the human eye in cross-section, including the lens, pupil, iris, cornea, retina, optic nerve, sclera and vitreous body

Peg Gerrity

Vision loss caused by an overgrowth of choroidal blood vessels in the retina

Matthew Chansky | Medical Design Agency

Eye and Midbrain Nerves and Muscles

Phototake – Masters in Medical Images

Author: Carol & Mike Werner
Eye: pars plana, part of the ciliary body

Brian Harrold | Beru Graphics

3 film layers associated with dry eye

Destry Sloane | Animated Biomedical Productions