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 in the Door The Eye in the Door The Eye in the Door is a novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1993, and forming the second part of the "Regeneration" trilogy. "The Eye in the Door" is set in London, beginning in mid-April, 1918, and continues the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in "Regeneration". It ends some time before the conclusion of the First World War later the same year. The third part of the trilogy, "The Ghost Road", continues the story. Whereas "Regeneration" is an anomalous, but not unique, mixture of fact and fiction,