The transparent anterior portion of the fibrous coat of the eye that serves as the chief refractory structure. [ MP:0001312 MESH:A09.371.060.217 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]
Synonyms: cornea of camera-type eye
Term information
- OpenCyc:Mx4rvViBa5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- Wikipedia:Cornea
- AAO:0010344
- TAO:0000640
- EV:0100341
- UMLS:C0010031 (ncithesaurus:Cornea)
- EHDAA2:0000316
- CALOHA:TS-0171
- BTO:0000286
- SCTID:181162001
- EFO:0000377
- GAID:892
- ZFA:0000640
- XAO:0000180
- NCIT:C12342
- VHOG:0000164
- EMAPA:17161
- MA:0000266
- MESH:D003315
- EHDAA:10199
- FMA:58238
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
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
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Schematic_diagram_of_the_human_eye_en.svg
Term relations
- multicellular anatomical structure
- multicellular anatomical structure
- neural crest-derived structure
- cellular anatomical 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
- part of some anterior segment of eyeball
- has part some corneal epithelium
- part of some tunica fibrosa of eyeball
- contributes to morphology of some anterior segment of eyeball