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Quite simply the Answer is NO!. The statement that has been heard many a time saying "new born babies' eyes are the same size as fully grown adults" is actually false. I have researched in to this Myth. The example given below doesn't actually give examples of actual sizes but simply uses reason to explain why people would have thought this to be true as eyes sizes do appear to change due to eye lid dimensions (The eye ball remains the same. What gives o ur eyes that almond shape is how our eye lids are covering some of our eye. people with "bigger eyes" have less of their eye ball covered by eyelids, or the eye brow bone, or by the fat around the eyes).

A medical Journal has something else to say on the matter.

"According to General Ophthalmology (Vaughan, Asbury and Riordan-Eva, Appleton & Lange, Stamford, 1999),

"the size of the eyeball at birth averages 16.5 mm in diameter (front to back measurement).

In adults, the diameter is 24.2 mm." The maximum eye size is reached when a person is 7-8 years old. So, the eye grows 50% in diameter, and to something over double its birth weight (+115%)."

not only do they get Bigger in size by 50% they increase in weight by up to 115%.

I recently believed this to be untrue as i am a usually quite good at precise measurements and after seeing a new born baby's eyes i really found it difficult to find the sizes comparable.

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no No, do you know the analogy how people say your head is the right size for your body. well your eyes are the right size for your body. Your eyes , when you are a baby are much smaller. But deference is not very.

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Yes, your eyes stay the same as you grow up

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No, because your body adjusts to your size and your eyeballs adjust to the size of your body. So the answer would be no.

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it's smaller.

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