What's the distance between the corners of your eye?
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I'm doing some studies of the human eye anatomy and I want to get the right proportions between the size of the eyeball and the size of the orbit. Some simple Googling showed that the eyeballs of healthy humans have a diameter of 24.5 mm. I however couldn't find any sort of average distance between the corners of the eyelid aka the medial and lateral canthus. Does anyone have a figure for this measurement or would you be willing to CAREFULLY measure this distance with a ruler? (I recommend winking one eye closed and using the other eye to read the distance in a mirror so you avoid poking your eye out.)
On my eye I got a measurement of 35 mm between the medial and lateral canthus but I'd like to have some confirmation from my other fellow humans that this is indeed the correct measurement.
On my eye I got a measurement of 35 mm between the medial and lateral canthus but I'd like to have some confirmation from my other fellow humans that this is indeed the correct measurement.
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I think the average distance between the centres of the eyeballs is ~7cm, and there's around an eye's width between the eyes. So that sounds like it fits.
FWIW, I just measured mine and yeah, ~33mm.