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12,496 papers- Blinking and upper eyelid morphology.Contact lens & anterior eye : the journal of the British Contact Lens Association · 2022
- Spontaneous, Voluntary, and Reflex Blinking in Clinical Practice.Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society · 2019
- Sex, blinking, and dry eye.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020
- Effects of cataract surgery on blinking.Journal of cataract and refractive surgery · 2023
- Eye blinking, musical processing, and subjective states-A methods account.Psychophysiology · 2023
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- Function and anatomy
- Central nervous system's control
- Evolutionary origins
- Types of blinking
- Spontaneous blink
- Reflex blink
- Voluntary blink
- Blinking in everyday life
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Blinking is a bodily function; it is a semi-autonomic rapid closing of the eyelid. A single blink is determined by the forceful closing of the eyelid or inactivation of the levator palpebrae superioris and the activation of the palpebral portion of the orbicularis oculi, not the full open and close. It is an essential function of the eye that helps spread tears across and remove irritants from the surface of the cornea and conjunctiva.
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