True or False If you were in an environment that had zero oxygen but were wearing an oxygen mask supplying your lungs with oxygen, cells within the cornea would die because they would have no way to get oxygen.
The following statment is true.
Cornea is non vascular tissue of our body. In order to remain transparent, the cornea is devoid of any blood vessel. The nutrition to cornea is supplied by aqueous humor and the oxygen is directly absorbed from the atmosphere.
Some inner layers of cornea receives oxygen from diffused oxygen in aqueous humor, but this amount is very less and whole of cornea can't rely on this small amount. The outer layers totally depend on outer atmosphere for oxygen.
Thus, if we go in an atmosphere with zero oxygen, our cornea will gonna die.
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