Refractive index of meibomian and other lipids
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Current Eye Research
- Vol. 5 (11), 887-889
- https://doi.org/10.3109/02713688609029242
Abstract
The refractive indices of human and rabbit meibomian secretions, and of several natural lipid mixtures and eye ointments, have been measured as a function of temperature and wavelength. A value of 1.482 was found for meibomian oil at typical eye surface temperature, but varies in humans between ca. 1.46 and 1.53 over the visible spectrum.Keywords
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