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If you reach up and feel around your eye, you’ll feel the bone of your skull. There’s fat surrounding your eyeball to keep it from bumping up against the bone and getting bruised.

In the cow’s eye dissection, we cut away all the fat and muscle so that we can see the eyeball.


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