Q. At the posterior pole of the eye lateral to the blind spot, there is a yellowish pigmented spot called
A) Corpus luteum
B) Fovea
C) Macula quadrigenina
D) Macula lutea
Explanation
A small oval, yellowish area of the retina lying exactly opposite to the centre of the cornea is named the macula lutea or yellow spot which as its middle has a shallow depression, the fovea-centralis. The fovea centralis has cone cells only. It is devoid of rods and blood cells
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