title: Refractive index of meibomian and other lipids.
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.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005123:Eye; D005143:Eyelids / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D008055:Lipids; D008537:Meibomian Glands / Q000378:metabolism*; D009824:Ointments; D011817:Rabbits; D012031:Refractometry; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids; D009824:Ointments