The transparent anterior portion of the fibrous coat of the eye that serves as the chief refractory structure. [ MESH:A09.371.060.217 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 MP:0001312 ]
Synonyms: cornea of camera-type eye
Term information
- MA:0000266
- VHOG:0000164
- MESH:D003315
- TAO:0000640
- FMA:58238
- BTO:0000286
- GAID:892
- EHDAA:10199
- ZFA:0000640
- NCIT:C12342
- XAO:0000180
- EMAPA:17161
- EHDAA2:0000316
- AAO:0010344
- EV:0100341
- EFO:0000377
- Wikipedia:Cornea
- CALOHA:TS-0171
- SCTID:181162001
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
Term relations
- multicellular anatomical structure
- neural crest-derived structure
- has part some anterior limiting lamina of cornea
- has quality some transparent
- part of some ocular surface region
- continuous with some sclera
- develops from some corneal primordium
- develops from some optic eminence
- developmentally induced by some lens vesicle
- has part some corneal epithelium
- part of some anterior segment of eyeball
- part of some tunica fibrosa of eyeball
- contributes to morphology of some anterior segment of eyeball