ABSTRACT
The anterior chamber is the dome-shaped space between the back of the cornea and the front of the iris. In patients with small eyes the chamber tends to be shallow (one of the risk factors for acute, closed-angle glaucoma). The anterior chamber and the cornea are examined with the biomicroscope or slit-lamp microscope, which provides a stereoscopic, magnified, illuminated view of the cornea and anterior chamber, iris and pupil and crystalline lens. In other words, the anterior segment of the eye.
