Eyes don't grow

Factual Questions
1

I heard that a person eyes are the same size when they are born that they are their whole life.

Is this true? I doubt it. Sites, please.

2

So let me get this straight – you’re looking for a Site for Small Eyes?

I don’t know about the eyes themselves, but I do know that the interpupillary distance (IPD) certainly changes markedly (I’ve looked up the figures). I’m pretty sure the size of the orbits in the skull increase, too – and that implies that the eueballs do, as well. Otherwise, I suspect little kids would look pretty pop-eyed.

3

This is an urban legend thing, I just want to confirm that a person’s eyes do continue to grow after birth.

4

From: http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471926922,00.html

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So its accepted fact that the eyes grow, just as it is that bones grow too.

5

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But, unlike bones, aren’t eyes very uniform in size and shape? Eyes are, essentially, a precision optical instrument. Even people who have very bad vision only have their focal length off by a fraction of a milimeter, don’t they? If they weren’t all “built” to exacting specifications, they wouldn’t work.

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6

The quote above doesn’t say when the growth occurs, could all eye growth occur before birth and abnormal growth causes eye problems later as eye shape, not size, changes?

7

From this article on anophthalmos:

Conclusion: eyes grow during adolesence.

8

During childhood too.

9

Yeah, I’m a dork. I meant “between infancy and adulthood”, and adolescence was the first word that popped into my head.