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Appropriate sudden stimuli, such as an electric shock on the hand or a loud noise, causes the human lens to become momentarily more hypermetropic. Since this effect is always accompanied by dilation of the pupil and may be accompanied by change in skin resistance, increase in heart rate, and decrease in foot volume, it, too, is thought to be a result of sympathetic stimulation.
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