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
- UMLS:C0010031 (ncithesaurus:Cornea)
- MA:0000266
- XAO:0000180
- FMA:58238
- EFO:0000377
- EHDAA2:0000316
- AAO:0010344
- EHDAA:10199
- EV:0100341
- GAID:892
- EMAPA:17161
- BTO:0000286
- ZFA:0000640
- VHOG:0000164
- MESH:D003315
- CALOHA:TS-0171
- TAO:0000640
- Wikipedia:Cornea
- SCTID:181162001
- NCIT:C12342
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Schematic_diagram_of_the_human_eye_en.svg
Compared to terrestial animals, the cornea of zebrafish is relatively flat. It consists of nonpigmented, stratified squamous nonkeratinizing epithelial cells, attached to a thick basement membrane that is considered to be analogous to the Bowman's membrane in mammals. In fish, and aquatic vertebrates in general, the cornea plays no role in focusing light, since it has virtually the same refractive index as water
Term relations
- protein-containing material entity
- neural crest-derived structure
- cellular anatomical structure
- has quality some multicellular
- continuous with some sclera
- develops from some corneal primordium
- develops from some optic eminence
- part of some anterior segment of eyeball
- end stage some death stage
- has part some anterior limiting lamina of cornea
- has quality some transparent
- part of some ocular surface region
- bearer of some mass
- bearer of some maximally connected
- developmentally induced by some lens vesicle
- bearer of some 3-D shape
- has part some corneal epithelium
- part of some tunica fibrosa of eyeball
- bearer of some multicellular
- contributes to morphology of some anterior segment of eyeball
- existence starts during or after some zygote stage
- part of some multicellular organism
- has part some cell