Inner Molecular Layer
The Inner Molecular Layer is the fourth (4th) of the layers forming the retina of the human eye.
Recall that light from outside the human body enters the eye through its main structures of the cornea, aqueous humour, pupil, lens, etc. and is normally focussed onto the retina of the eye.
The retina is composed of several layers which, together, form the "screen" in the eye onto which an image of the area viewed by the eye is formed, and information about that image is segmented into packets of information that are passed to the visual cortex of the brain via the optic nerve.
The Inner Molecular Layer consists of a dense network
of tiny fibres that connect and mesh together the dendrites of the ganglion
cells (that form the Ganglionic
Layer - layer 3) with the cells of the Inner
Nuclear Layer (layer 5), which is located immediately behind the Inner
Molecular Layer.
For more information about related subjects see:
- Structure of the human eye
- Structure of the human retina
- What is ophthalmology?
- List of disorders of the human eye
- List of ophthalmic procedures
- Textbooks about ophthalmology
