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lens fiber

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A region of the lens consisting of packed elongated enucleate cells packed with crystallin. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]

Synonyms: lens fibers lens fibers set lens fibres fibrae lentis

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Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

latin term
fibrae lentis [ FMA:76827 FMA:TA ]

external definition

Fibres resembling a ribbon and arranged in very thin plates in the lens. [Dorian_AF, Elsevier's_encyclopaedic_dictionary_of_medicine, Part_B:_Anatomy_(1988)_Amsterdam_etc.:_Elsevier][VHOG]

has related synonym

lens fibre

set of lens fibers

homology notes

(...) the line, or Y, or star sutures common to mammalian lenses, including those of primates. In the case of line or Y sutures, the overlapping of lens fibers in each successive shell is coincident and results in the formation of four or six three-dimensional suture planes that extend from the lens nucleus to the periphery.[well established][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0002444

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606