Uveitis between 28% and 50%. Uveitis is estimated to be responsible for approximately 10%-20% of the blindness in the United States. Uveitis Uveitis is the inflammation of the uvea, the pigmented layer that lies between the inner retina and the outer fibrous layer composed of the sclera and cornea. The uvea consists of the middle layer of pigmented vascular structures of the eye and includes the iris, ciliary body, and choroid. Uveitis is an ophthalmic emergency and requires a thorough examination by an optometrist or ophthalmologist and urgent treatment to control the inflammation. It is often associated with other ocular problems.
Ocelloid hypothesized to represent the eye of a multicellular organism coincidentally engulfed by a single-celled organism. The possibility that it had an evolutionary relationship to plastids had been considered at least since the 1970s, although until the 2010s direct evidence was scarce. Ocelloids contain subcomponents analogous to eye structures including the lens, cornea, iris, and retina. It can be divided into two substructures, the translucent, roundish "hyalosome" and the heavily pigmented "melanosome", also known as the retinal body or pigment cup. The hyalosome serves as the refractive lens of the ocelloid; it is surrounded by a layer of mitochondria serving as