Any of the parts of the eye that lie in back of, or dorsal to, the lens (but not inclusive). [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 MP:0005195 ]
Synonyms: eye posterior segment posterior segment eye posterior eye segment posterior segment of the eye posterior segment of eye segmentum posterius (bulbus oculi)
Term information
- Wikipedia:Posterior_segment_of_eyeball
- SCTID:280659009
- MA:0002485
- NCIT:C12906
- EMAPA:36595
- ZFA:0005567
- UMLS:C0278450 (ncithesaurus:Posterior_Eye_Segment)
- FMA:58868
pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Schematic_diagram_of_the_human_eye_en.svg
Term relations
- organ subunit
- in posterior side of some eyeball of camera-type eye
- part of some eyeball of camera-type eye
- contributes to morphology of some camera-type eye