Table 2 of Riley, Mol Vis 2001; 7:297-304.


Table 2. Numbers of nerve trunks entering right corneas

The number of nerves innervating corneas in Figure 3 is lower than the number in the tables because the image only reveals nerves at one focal depth; the tables include nerve bundles seen at all focal depths. There was no significant difference (a=0.05) in respective pairwise comparisons between quadrants of the same side, between total nerve numbers, or between corresponding left and right quadrants. Abbreviations: CCW, Counter-clockwise; V, Ventral; T, Temporal; D, Dorsal; N, Nasal.

                                                                              Average
                                         Cornea number                        nerves/
                            ---------------------------------------           specific
Quadrant (from Figure 3)     7      8      9      10     11     12    Total   quadrant   SEM
-------------------------   ----   ----   ----   ----   ----   ----   -----   --------   ---
A:   0° -  90° CCW (V->T)    9     11     11     10     10     10      61       10       0.3
B:  90° - 180° CCW (T->D)   11     13      9     10     10     10      63       11       0.6
C: 180° - 270° CCW (D->N)   14     13     10     13     10     11      71       12       0.7
D: 270° - 360° CCW (N->V)   10     10     10     10     12     11      63       11       0.3
                   Total:   44     47     40     43     42     42     258       44       1.0
 Average nerves/quadrant:   11     12     10     11     11     11               11       0.2
                     SEM:    1.1    0.8    0.4    0.8    0.5    0.3     2.2      0.4

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