EYE ADVICE: Professional Papers

Part I Physiology of Meridional Accommodation  

by Kon Zagoritis BscOptom FVCO

MA can be broadly defined as a non-spherical change in the accommodation of an eye. Normally, this action is purposeful, and the lenticular accommodation produced is directed towards opposing "with the rule"(WTR) corneal toricity. This is the most common form of corneal toricity from about the second year of life up to the third to fourth decades of life. (Woodruff 1971 and Lyle 1971). 

MA has been a most controversial subject ever since Dobrowolsky first wrote about it in 1868. Several authors followed around the turn of the century, notably Martin, who is referred to by Fletcher (1951). There have since been only occasional reports which are mentioned by Fletcher and by Brzezinski (1982) in their reviews of the subject.

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