An eye flap is an aid, which serves the cover of an eye for medical or cosmetic reasons. It consists of an oval, easily curved bowl, which is put over the eye and fastened in general with a flexible volume behind the head. In addition, the bowl consists depending upon area of application of plastic, felt or leather, can consist of other materials and be provided with an internal upholstery e.g.

Application

Medical application

The eye flap can serve most diverse medical purposes. Among other things e.g.

• immobilizing the eye
• to keep damp the eye, if the eyelids cannot be e.g. closed any longer
• the protection from external influences/contamination

To adjust with children the flap frequently used around a different development of the two eyes (to squint, Amblyopie), whereby an eye plaster is here often rather used.

Cosmetic application

To cover with cosmetic application the eye flap for it uses a fault. Frequently it concerns thereby a blind or missing eye.

Other application

Eye flaps are used also by sport contactors, in order to switch off and so more easily visors know an eye completely.

History

Since then humans of tools used, he will have manufactured already different kinds of eye flaps to leave in order to protect hurt eyes and better heals.

Before arising the modern medicine eye flaps were pervasive. Above all particularly endangered occupational groups like e.g. They carried Schmiede frequently. With the improvement of the medicine and the arising of prostheses (glass eye) and eye protectors the eye flap became however ever rarer.

Against the opinion eye flaps were used also for the cover by healthy eyes. Piraten used it e.g. around their eyes for the night to train. By holding an eye also during the day in the darkness, they could see better thereby at night, or at least they believed that. However in former times many sailors on an eye went blind by the use of the sextant, with which one must anvisieren the sun, therefore probably carried so some Pirat his eye flap over a really blind eye.

Famous carriers of eye flaps

Material persons

• the writer James Joyce
• the singer Gabrielle
• the director John Ford
• the Israeli minister of foreign affairs Moshe Dajan

Fictitious characters

• Halvar (the father of Wickie from Wickie and the strong men)
• Snake Plissken (from the rattling queue and escape from L.A.)
• Inch Driver (rogue from Kill Bill)

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