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is there a source in the eye that constantly “produces” and gives away fluid, like a
fountain?
The various parts of the eye anatomy can be divided into front end and back
end. The front end comprises eight different parts:

trabecular meshwork
ciliary body
lens
iris
pupil

cornea
aqueous humor
canal of Schlemm

Four of these functions (half) are associated with an “irrigation system” that
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constantly pumps fluid into the eye, like a fountain (ayin) , with no relevance to
the sight function. Here are the descriptions of these functions:

• Aqueous humor: the watery fluid that fills the chambers at the front of

the eye, produced by the ciliary body.
• Ciliary body: the thickened part of the vascular portion of the eye that
lies between the iris and the choroid (the vascular membrane that covers
the eye between the retina and the sclera). It is responsible for producing
the aqueous humor that circulates in the chambers of the eye.

• Trabecular meshwork: a network of fibers responsible for draining the
aqueous humor from the eye.
• Canal of Schlemm: a circular canal between the cornea and the iris
that provides an exit for the aqueous humor from the eye into the
bloodstream.

Interestingly, the latter organ, named after Friedrich Schlemm (1795–1859),
is also named Fontana’s canal, after the eighteenth century Italian chemist Felice
Fontana (1730–1805), who had described the new canal in the eye in a publica-
tion from 1787.
The name Fontana seems like a proper name for an investigator of a human
organ called in Hebrew “a fountain.”