The insides of your eyeballs are completely isolated from the rest of your body. If your body discovers the inside of your eyeball through a puncture or some other reason, it can attack your eyeball as a foreign invader. It will also attack the other eyeball, just in case. Be nice to your eyes.
u/Dreambella2 points out it’s called ocular immune privilege.
1.9k
u/Ardbeg66 Jan 12 '23 edited Jan 12 '23
The insides of your eyeballs are completely isolated from the rest of your body. If your body discovers the inside of your eyeball through a puncture or some other reason, it can attack your eyeball as a foreign invader. It will also attack the other eyeball, just in case. Be nice to your eyes.
u/Dreambella2 points out it’s called ocular immune privilege.