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Have you ever stopped to think about how amazing the human eye is?

Our eyes are one of the most fascinating and complex part of the body. Actually how much do we really know about them and how they work? Moreover, we rely on them every day, yet we don’t give them much attention until something goes wrong and our vision gets affected. These two organs belong to a general group of eyes found in nature called “camera type eyes”.They take light waves bouncing off the things infront of us and convert those into continuous stream moving images that are accurate and detailed. They also connect us to our surroundings and make so many activities we take granted possible, from driving to reading. So leaving the anatomy part aside, eyes are perhaps the most important…

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