Can a doctor removed your eyeball to inspect the back of it then put it back in? I've heard that it is possible, but I have also heard that to do this the eyeball would have to be permanently removed.
2007-01-02 02:47:10 · 8 answers · asked by bbking48507 5 in Health ➔ Other - Health
The eyeball is attached to the back of the eye socket by the optic nerve, like a cable, that transmits the image you see to the brain. A doctor may be able to move the eye a bit, and prod around the sides to inspect it, but I wouldn't have thought the optic nerve is long enough to move the eyeball forward very much.
2007-01-02 02:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by ricochet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard that if you take an eyeball out and put it back in you wouldn't be able to see because the optic nerve stretches too much
2007-01-02 02:50:26 · answer #2 · answered by erindrozda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any thing can be removed and put back in. The question is will the eye still function if it was done. To date no surgeon has completely removed an eye from its socket and then reattached it and had the eye function properly.
2007-01-02 02:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
they can remove it but the nerves must be properly attached... or they may remove them and then replace it with artificial ones...
2007-01-02 02:49:57 · answer #4 · answered by math 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-01-02 02:49:02 · answer #5 · answered by love2help 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why not, they take everything else out. lol
2007-01-02 02:50:00 · answer #6 · answered by Angela F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure,sometimes they do it just for fun !!
2007-01-02 02:48:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they can do it....its not so much harmful
2007-01-02 02:54:17 · answer #8 · answered by nickless 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋