A thickened portion of ectoderm which serves as the precursor to the lens. SOX2 and Pou2f1 are involved in its development[WP]. [ http://zfin.org/curator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_placode ]

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

has related synonym

placoda lentis

lens placodes

id

UBERON:0003073