Sclera nitrogenous sugar, hexosamine) to embed the fibrils. The cornea, unlike the sclera, has five layers. The middle, thickest layer is also called the stroma. The sclera, like the cornea, contains a basal endothelium, above which there is the lamina fusca, containing a high count of pigment cells. Sometimes, very small gray-blue spots can appear on the sclera, a harmless condition called scleral melanocytosis. Human eyes are somewhat distinctive in the animal kingdom in that the sclera is very plainly visible whenever the eye is open. This is not just due to the white colour of the human sclera, which many
The Eye of Tandyla The Eye of Tandyla "The Eye of Tandyla" is a fantasy story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of his Pusadian series. It was first published in the magazine "Fantastic Adventures" for May, 1951, and first appeared in book form in de Camp's collection "The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales" (Twayne, 1953). The story has also appeared in the magazine "Fantastic" for November 1965, the anthologies "Time Untamed" (1967), "The Magic of Atlantis" (1970), "Wizards" (1983), and "The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy" (1999) (also published as "The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II"), and the