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Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Chloride Sweat Test
What It Is
A chloride sweat test helps diagnose cystic fibrosis (CF), an inherited disorder that makes kids sick by disrupting the normal function of epithelial cells. These cells make up the sweat glands in the skin and also line passageways inside the lungs, liver, pancreas, and digestive and reproductive systems. Kids who have CF are at risk for repeated lung infections.
The sweat test measures the amount of chloride in sweat. Kids with cystic fibrosis can have two to five times the normal amount of chloride in their sweat. In a sweat test, the skin is stimulated to produce enough sweat to be absorbed into a special collector and then analyzed.
Doctors may test an infant suspected of having cystic fibrosis as early as 48 hours after birth, though any test done during a baby's first month might need to be repeated because newborns may not produce enough sweat to ensure reliable results.
Why It's Done
Doctors will order a chloride sweat test for kids with positive newborn screen for cystic fibrosis, a family history of cystic fibrosis, or symptoms of the disorder. Symptoms and signs include failure to grow, repeated lung infections, and digestive problems.
No special preparation is necessary for this test. Before having this test, your child may eat, drink, and exercise as usual, and continue to take any current medicines. Creams and lotions should not be applied to the skin 24 hours before the procedure. A sweat test usually takes about an hour, so you may want to bring books or toys to help your child pass the time.
There are no needles used in this procedure.
The Procedure
An area of skin on the arm will be washed and dried. Next, two electrodes are attached with straps. One of these contains a disc with pilocarpine gel, a medicine that makes the sweat glands produce sweat. A weak electric current pushes the medicine through the skin. After this is done, the electrodes are removed and the skin is cleansed.
A special sweat collection device is then attached to the clean skin surface in the area where the sweat glands were stimulated. It's taped to the skin to keep it from moving. The sweat is collected for 30 minutes. The sweat that's collected turns blue when it comes into contact with blue dye within the collector, making it visible to the technician.
After enough sweat is in the tubing inside the collector, it's removed and placed in the sweat analyzer. The collector is removed and the arm is cleaned again. Your child's skin may remain red and continue sweating for several hours after the test.
What to Expect
This test shouldn't be painful, though some kids do feel a slight tingling or tickling sensation when the electrodes apply current to the skin.
Getting the Results
Results are usually available in 1–2 days.
If your child has a sweat chloride level of more than 60 millimoles per liter, it's considered abnormal and indicates a high likelihood of cystic fibrosis, though some children with CF do have borderline or even normal sweat chloride levels. If more sweat is needed, the test might be repeated. If results are positive or unclear, a blood test may be done, especially for babies.
This test poses very little risk of complications. The electrical current may cause your child's skin to be red or to sweat excessively for a short period of time. In rare cases, the skin may look slightly sunburned.
Helping Your Child
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Raya was one of Jor-El's assistants.
When Krypton was on the brink of destruction, Raya helped Jor-El build a spaceship, to send Kal-El to Earth. To save Raya's life, she was sent to the Phantom Zone.[1]
In 2006, Raya came across a young man, recently banished to the Zone. She soon realized that this young man was Kal-El. Raya helped Kal-El escape the Zone, with herself and several others trapped in the Zone ending up on Earth.[2]
After six weeks on Earth, Raya went to the Kent Farm, where Kal-El lived. Not long after, she and Kal-El were confronted by Baern. Raya helped Kal-El defeating Baern, but was killed in the battle.[1]
Powers and Abilities
- Kryptonian Physiology: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, Raya possesses the same potential powers as an average Kryptonian. These include:
- Solar Energy Absorption: Under optimal conditions, this is the main source of Raya's super powers as they are contingent upon exposure to solar radiation from a yellow sun star system. Her biological make up includes a number of organs which lack analogues in humans and whose functions are unknown. It is believed that between one or more of these and her bio-cellular matrix, "yellow" solar energy is stored for later use. This allows for the use of these powers to fade when yellow solar radiation is not available instead of immediate failure.
- Heat Vision: Raya can, as a conscious act, fire beams of intense heat at a target by looking at it. She can vary the heat and area affected.
- Super-Hearing: Raya's hearing is sensitive enough to hear any sound at any volume or pitch. With skill and concentration, she can block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency.
- Enhanced Vision: Raya's vision processes the entire electromagnetic spectrum as well as allowing vast control over selective perception and focus.
This umbrella ability includes the following:- Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision: Raya can see well into most of the electromagnetic spectrum. She can see and identify radio and television signals as well as all other broadcast or transmitted frequencies. Using this ability, she can avoid detection by radar or satellite monitoring methods. This also allows her to see the aura generated by living thing.
- Telescopic Vision: This is the ability to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics. Though limited, the exact extent of the ability is undetermined. In function, it is similar to the zoom lens on a camera.
- X-Ray Vision: This is the ability to see through any volume of matter except lead. Rayas can see things behind a solid, opaque object as if it were not there. She can focus this ability to "peel back" layers of an object, allowing hidden image or inner workings to be observed. The exact type of energy perceived—such as x-rays, cosmic rays, or some other energy invisible to normal humans—is unclear. This ability perceives an ambient energy source though, it does not involve the eye projecting a concentrated, possibly toxic, beam to be reflected back from objects.
- Microscopic Vision: This is the ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level.
- Infrared Vision: Raya can see with better acuity in darkness, and to a degree in total darkness.
- Flight: Raya is able to manipulate graviton particles to defy the forces of gravity and achieve flight. This ranges from hovering to moving in any posture, in any direction.
- Invulnerability: Due to the interaction of her dense molecular structure and supercharged bio-electric aura, Raya is nigh-invulnerable to extreme energy forces. In addition, her extends this protection against toxins and diseases.
- Superhuman Stamina: Raya is able to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an indefinite period of time. This based on her body converting yellow solar radiation directly to energy, but is limited by physiological and psychological needs to eat, drink, and sleep.
- Superhuman Strength: Raya's strength is augmented by yellow solar radiation interacting with the greater than human density, resilience and biological efficiency of her musculature. Her strength is more an act of conscious will on energy fields than actual physical strength. It is this act of conscious will that enables her to perform physical feats that are beyond the mere application force, such as moving a mountain top without said rock crumbling under its own mass.
- Superhuman Speed: Raya is able to move at incredible speed by sheer force of will. This extends to her perceptions and allows for feats such as catching bullets in mid flight as well as covering vast distances in little or no time.
This also confers: - Super-Breath: Raya is able to create hurricane force winds by exhaling air from her lungs. She can chill the air as it leaves her lungs to freeze targets. She can also reverse the process to pull large volumes of air or vapor into her lungs.
- Longevity: Raya can live longer than regular humans, remaining at her prime as long as she was under the exposure of the "yellow" sun.
- Kryptonian Physiology: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, Raya possesses the same potential weaknesses as an average Kryptonian. These include:
- Raya was played by Pascale Hutton.
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Carbon Monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas which makes it extremely dangerous. CO detectors can protect your family from deadly carbon monoxide gas. Fuel-burning appliances such as oil and gas furnaces, gas water heaters, gas ranges and ovens, gas dryers, gas or kerosene space heaters, fireplaces and wood stoves are all sources of carbon monoxide.
A monitored carbon monoxide detector will alert you if high levels of this deadly gas are detected. Local building ordinances require the installation of carbon monoxide detectors in your home. An expert technician from Superior Mechanical can properly install your CO detector and ensure it's functioning correctly.


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Building Technology Research (ISSN(P): 2630-4651) is an international open access Chinese journal focusing on the latest research progress in building technology. The main contents of the publication are: promotion of new technologies, new materials, new processes, new equipment, new models with practical value in construction engineering; introduction of design and construction concepts/examples of major engineering and technology breakthroughs; researches on new technologies and processes on decoration, waterproof, foundation, formwork, steel, concrete, steel structure, component production, plumbing, electrical, equipment installation, etc.; design, construction technology and project management experience; explanation of construction engineering technical norms and management science theory; technical measures for construction organization management and prevention of common quality issues.
This journal welcomes manuscripts from advance and senior personnel engaged in scientific and technological work, decision-making, management, construction enterprises, engineering project management, architectural design, scientific research, architectural studies, and construction industry management.
Plagiarism is strictly prohibited in this journal.
Manuscripts should be related to but not limited to the following areas:
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- Specifications
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- Building new information, etc.
龚晓南 | 中国工程院院士、浙江大学教授 | 中国 |
邓宗才 | 北京工业大学建筑工程学院 教授 | 中国 |
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余波 | 广西大学土木建筑工程学院 教授 | 中国 |
施梁 | 南京工业大学建筑学院 教授 | 中国 |
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陈增顺 | 重庆大学土木工程学院 研究员 博导 | 中国 |
刘长江 | 广州大学土木工程学院 副教授 | 中国 |
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王俊杰 | 清华大学 助理研究员 | 中国 |
徐新华 | 华中科技大学环境科学与工程学院 教授 | 中国 |
詹庆明 | 武汉大学城市设计学院 教授 | 中国 |
李杉 | 武汉大学 教授 | 中国 |
崔铁军 | 沈阳理工大学教授 | 中国 |
陆松伦 | 西安墙体材料研究设计院有限公司 | 中国 |
顾晶 | 江苏筑森建筑设计有限公司 | 中国 |
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The late Jimmy Savile is not the only U.K. TV personality whose name has emerged in a sexual abuse investigation. A wide-ranging British inquiry has revealed many other household names who are suspected of committing sexual offenses decades ago.
The latest name: BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall, who on Thursday admitted to 14 charges of indecently assaulting girls.
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"The 83-year-old of Wilmslow, Cheshire, pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to the offences, involving 13 victims, which occurred between 1967 and 1985.
"The ex-host of the BBC game show It's a Knockout ... was bailed and is due to be sentenced on 17 June.
"His lawyer said he apologised to his victims and was 'all too aware that his disgrace is complete.'
"Three charges of indecent assault and one of rape will lie on the court file.
"Hall was working as a football reporter on BBC Radio 5 Live and wrote a weekly sport column for the Radio Times magazine until his arrest."
As recently as February, Hall had vowed to fight the charges. His role emerged as part of Operation Yewtree, an investigation launched after revelations about Savile, who died in 2011. As we reported at the time, a British police inquiry found that more than 200 crimes were formally recorded against the beloved TV personality. The abuses took place between 1955 and 2009, and the bulk of the victims were girls under the age of 18.
That led to claims about other personalities, and Operation Yewtree has also led to other arrests. Last month, police arrested Australia-born Rolf Harris, one of Britain's best-known entertainers, on unspecified charges. As The New York Times put it:
"Like Mr. Savile, Mr. Harris had been known to successive generations of Britons and Australians as an affable, if quirky, national treasure, a fixture on television and entertainment shows who played on his Australian roots and his skills as an artist and musician.
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The Times has been following the story, and offers this nugget that serves as a frame of reference: "In American terms, it is as if Captain Kangaroo, Dick Clark and Jerry Lewis were suddenly being accused of committing sexual crimes dating back 30 or 40 years."
But of the dozens arrested as part of the operation, including the singer Gary Glitter, only two others have been charged: Max Clifford, one of the country's best-known publicists; and a former BBC driver.
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It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden. An international hostage drama has come to an end in Algeria. After four days, the Algerian army ended the bloody siege of a remote oil and gas facility where Islamist militants were holding dozens of Western hostages. The brutal assault was launched Thursday morning. Many people are dead, up to 23 captives and at least 30 Islamists, according to the Algerian state media.
The real numbers could be far higher, analysts say. The Algerian operation was chaotic, confusing and shrouded in secrecy. We go now to NPR correspondent Eleanor Beardsley who's been following the drama from Paris. Hello, Eleanor.
ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: Good evening, Jacki.
LYDEN: So the world has been waiting for this to end. How did it end today?
BEARDSLEY: Well, it ended in a final siege. We got word of - midmorning that the Algerian army was, you know, bearing down on a last 10 to 12 Islamists, hardcore Islamist militants who were at the center of this gas facility with their hostages. Apparently, they were holding seven - last hostages on the site. And, you know, they killed every one of those hostages before being blown up themselves by the Algerian forces. So it ended in a huge battle at the center of the oil and gas facility.
LYDEN: So we'll be sorting the consequences of that out, I'm sure, for days to come. Remind us why the Islamists attacked the facility in the first place.
BEARDSLEY: Right. Well, they attacked, and the first thing they said was they wanted France out of Mali. Because remember, just a week ago, France intervened to help the Malian army defeat Islamists that had taken over the north of that country, which borders Algeria. So the first thing they said was they want France out of Mali, and they also said they were angry at Algeria for letting France use its airspace for French planes to bomb Mali. Why, because France is also a former colonizer of Algeria.
And apparently, it did divide public opinion. But, of course, Islamists in Algeria were furious. They said that the country had betrayed the blood of the martyrs who had fought the French colonizers in the 1950s and '60s. So that's what they were saying. But you know what, these Islamists, they're described as roving bandits. They traffic, they smuggle. The leader of the group was called Mr. Marlboro because of his illicit cigarette trading.
So they're also looking for opportunities, and they found this gas and oil site in the middle of the Saharan Desert, literally a thousand miles from the Algerian capital and from anywhere else, with dozens - hundreds of people and dozens and dozens of foreigners there. It was a perfect opportunity for them.
LYDEN: A big target. And now, as you just mentioned, we know that a number of these hostages were killed along with their captors. Why did the Algerian army do this? It's already received criticism for not alerting other countries.
BEARDSLEY: Right. Everyone was kind of shocked by the brutality and the rapidity. They just went in. And no one knew what was going on. They didn't tell France, Britain or the U.S. or Japan. They told no one what was going on because the Algerian army, they - this is a thing - this is an issue of national pride and survival for Algeria. These terrorists struck the heart of the country, the economic heart, oil and gas.
And Algeria fought a 10-year civil war with these same people, these Islamists. It was a brutal war. Up to 200,000 Algerian citizens died. Their doctrine of the Algerian state is to never negotiate with terrorists. For the Algerian state, this was an absolute catastrophe. Even in the worst days of the civil war in the '90s, no Jihadist ever seized an energy facility. So they had to strike back. They had to end it fast. And this is the way they react against their terrorists.
LYDEN: That's NPR's Eleanor Beardsley. Eleanor, thank you for following this for us.
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2011 ….
… is it already time to say goodbye you? It seems like it was just a few days back I was saying Hello to you and looking forward to paint you with vivid colors. Now here I am again - same place, same time and looking forward to greeting another new year with the same eagerness and enthusiasm. But 2011 … you have been good to me.
Looking back at all that 2011 will therefore be a lot of fun. I invite you to join me while I take a quick trip through a year that had many highs.
I've never been the one to make resolutions for a new year. If there are aspects of my life that needs changes then they need changing then and there and not putting it off for the begin of a new year. Why take the burdens of the old year with you?
They are goals I'd like to reach and while I take small steps forward I try to find the best path to achieve those goals. 2011 was very much about reaching my goals and … feeling good about those accomplishments.
In 2010 I had set the stepping stone to promote Meeta K. Wolff Photography more professionally. In 2011 I forged ahead with this goal, finally reaping what had been sown. It was pure pleasure to work on various projects with some exceptional clients, including Eckes-Granini, Air Canada, Laviva magazine to name a few.
All the time I am learning how the business works, making contacts and acquiring valuable knowledge that will help me further in the future. It's an enthralling road and while I never loose track of my goal, I am enjoying the journey immensely.
I continue to enhance my skills, playing around with different styles and stepping out of my comfort zone to find new aspects of styling and composition. 2011 was very much about pulling all that I have learned over the years together and putting it into practice and daring to do things differently. It's been elating to realize how at ease I have become with the more challenging aspects of photography, giving me more confidence to be adventurous.
The 11th Weblog Awards started the year off well as What's For Lunch, Honey? I was once again nominated as one of five finalists for Best European Blog … maybe I'll finally win it in 2012 :o) To all of you who nominated this blog I thank you so much for all your support.
I have been very ecstatic at the press attention What's For Lunch, Honey? has received from the German press in 2011. My humble blog was mentioned and featured in big German newspapers like Süddeutsche Zeitung and Zeit Magazin and Kwerfeldein.de, Germany's biggest online photography magazine worked together with me to feature my article on food styling and props. Another real high came from the feature in Harper's Bazaar India, where I was featured and one of India's "Food Inventors" … I was thrilled!
Crush Magazine Issue 6, run by the amazing and very debonair Michael Olivier featured a selection of my recipes pairing them with exciting South African wines. The Rambling Epicure portrayed some of my writing and ran photography features in the Food Art series and I worked with the lovely Silvanna from The Foodie Bugle as a featured writer.
Some of my favorite recipes from the blog this year have been:
- German Lentil and Sausage Stew
- The Hyderabadi Lamb Biryani
- Brunost Cheese Panna Cotta with Sticky Toffee Pears
- Ossobuco with Prunes, Apricots and Saffron
- Honey Roasted Cardamom Apple and Brown Butter Streusel Crostata
For a chocolate addict there were many chocolate treats to entice the sweet tooth:
- Chocolate Ovalmaltine Daim Cake
- Morello Cherry Chocolate and Cognac Teacakes
- Chocolate Orange Cake with Salted Caramel Ganache
- Chocolate Chunk Cookies
2011 was about traveling to sensational cities, visiting incredible food markets, swimming in gorgeous turquoise seas and enjoying the vivid warm colors of Fall. From Vienna to London to Gozo and Tuscany, 2011 kept my itchy traveling feet busy and camera clicking.
2011 was also very much about enjoying the tranquility of being at home. Weimar has become a place dear to my heart and I love living here … I know it will not be forever so I capture it's beauty the best way I know how … in images.
From Plate to Page was one of my biggest goals for 2011 and boy what can I say … together with three of my dearest friends Jeanne, Jamie and Ilva, we came, we saw and we conquered! We laid the foundation for these workshop series in 2010 and this year we successfully completed the first two. The first one in Weimar simply blew us away and just as we were thinking it could not be topped, the second one in Tuscany took our breaths away! The hard work that we've been putting into these workshops has been demanding but so satisfying.
The biggest added bonus about From Plate to Page has been meeting new people who leave as good friends and of course seeing those three lovely ladies who have become an extended part of me.
2011 was definitely about friendship! So, cheers to you my new and old friends - this one's for all of you:
Class of Weimar: Arthi | Astrid | David | Deborah | Ishay | Jasmine | Jenn | Julia | Ken
Mitch | Móna | Simone
Class of Tuscany: Marta | Kate | Valentina | Lynn | Alexandra | Elizabeth | Hayley | Olivia | Heidi Robin | Denise | Judith
Cheers to you my dearest sisters: Ilva, Jamie, Jeanne. Cheers also to precious and cherished friends far away but who have become so close to heart Robin, Nanette, Deeba all of you cheer me on from afar and motivate me through all my endeavors. Thank you friends! I hope 2012 brings us closer together!
If you have not already, please do take a few minutes to browse through both the From Plate to Page posts and enjoy some of the magic created.
If now you too want to be a part of this magic, registrations to the third From Plate to Page are open and we have a few spots free, so come on over and check out our incredible programme, take in the beauty of our venue and register here. We'd love to see you there!
I eagerly look forward towards 2012 filled with excitement at a few new projects I already have in the pipeline, nervous and happy at the prospects of fulfilling them successfully, determined to keep myself on edge, to learn, to thrive and most important to have a damn good time doing it all. I hope 2012 will be as vibrant and exciting as 2011 was and I hope more than ever that you will continue to be a part of my roller coaster ride.
Thanks to each and every one of you - my valued readers, faithful friends, loyal fans, perceptive advisors, cheering cheerleaders, incognito lurkers and always my supporting family. You add color to this little space of mine! Your thoughts, feedback, motivation and support does not go unnoticed. I hope I am able to give a little back of all that you continuously give me.
Come raise your champagne glasses and let the bubbles tingle at your noses as we welcome 2012 together!
Wishing you all a funky and bubbly New Year. May 2012 be a deliciously sweet year for you all!
See you on the other side!
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Among the things the Republican Party's presidential candidate is hearing this morning about the address he gave Thursday night is that "in a speech heavy on anecdotal history but short on policy details, Mitt Romney avoided major falsehoods."
Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but that analysis from the nonpartisan FactCheck.org is cheery compared to what the organization said about the acceptance speech that GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan gave to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. It contained "several false claims and misleading statements," FactCheck concluded. (We rounded up the morning-after fact checks of Ryan's speech here and here.)
Still, as with nearly all speeches given by candidates from both major parties, the fact checkers are finding fault with some of the things Romney said at the close of the GOP convention in Tampa:
-- PolitiFact.com is giving Romney its "pants on fire" rating for saying that President Obama began his term in office with "an apology tour." According to PolitiFact, "a review of Obama's foreign travels and remarks during his early presidency showed no evidence to support such a blunt and disparaging claim." It has flagged Romney for that "apology tour" claim before, as have other fact checkers.
-- Romney said "let me make this very clear unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class." The Associated Press writes that, "Obama has enacted several laws that could raise taxes for some middle-class families. Other Obama laws, however, have reduced taxes for many more such families."
-- President Obama, according to Romney, has cut $716 billion from Medicare that will "both hurt today's seniors, and depress innovation." But The Washington Post's Fact Checker says "the savings mostly are wrung from health-care providers, not Medicare beneficiaries — who, as a result of the health-care law, ended up with new benefits for preventive care and prescription drugs." Romney's Medicare comment is another one that's been called false before.
-- FactCheck.org, while saying Romney avoided major falsehoods, does say: "We found a few bits of exaggeration and puffery. He exaggerated the loss in family income that has occurred under Obama, for example, including 13 months of losses that actually occurred before the president took office. And he made a back-handed accusation that Obama has raised taxes on middle-class taxpayers, when in fact the president has lobbied for and signed several temporary reductions."
As we said at the top, though, the fact checkers aren't issuing alarming alerts about what Romney said. And they're also noting some of the claims he made that are very true. The AP, for instance, writes:
"Romney: 'President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet.'
"The Facts: Really?
"Yes, pretty much.
"In a June 2008 speech marking his victory in the Democratic primaries, Obama said generations from now, 'we will be able to look back and tell our children that ... this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.' "
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The sclera, also known as the white of the eye, is the opaque, fibrous, protective, outer layer of the eye.
The iris is a thin, circular structure in the eye, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil. The color of the iris is often referred to as "eye color."
The pupil is a hole located in the center of the iris that allows light to enter the eye. It appears black because light rays entering the pupil are either absorbed by the tissues inside the eye directly, or absorbed after diffuse reflections within the eye that mostly miss exiting the narrow pupil.
The cornea is the transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber. The cornea, with the anterior chamber and lens, refracts light, with the cornea accounting for approximately two-thirds of the eye's total optical power.
The crystalline lens is a transparent, biconvex structure that, along with the cornea, helps to refract light to be focused on the retina. By changing shape, the lens functions to change the focal distance of the eye so it can focus on objects at various distances.
The retina is a light-sensitive layer of tissue, lining the inner surface of the eye. It captures light sent through the cornea and crystalline lens to create an image by triggering nerve impulses that pass to various visual centers of the brain via the optic nerve.
The macula and fovea are small areas within the retina that contain rods and cones to determine the color and shape of the image you are viewing.