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CORNEA

What is cornea?
Cornea is eye’s outermost layer shaped-like a dome. It helps in protecting or providing shield to the rest of eye from dust, germs as well as other harmful substances. Cornea is clear and helps your eyes to focus. 
What do you understand by corneal disorder and its types?
Corneal disorders are those conditions which cause watery eyes, redness, reduced vision, halo effect or pain. Infection, disease, toxic agents and injury are some of the major factors that damage or harm cornea.  Given below are the types of corneal disorders-
•Conjunctivitis
•Cornea ulcer
•Dry eye
•Keratoconus
•Pterygium
•Keratoplasty/ corneal grafting