cornea

Definition

The transparent anterior portion of the fibrous coat of the eye that serves as the chief refractory structure.

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Parts in this atlas

• right cornea
• left cornea

Neighbouring structures

• sclera

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Wikipedia (English)

Identifiers

TA2

6744

TA98

A15.2.02.012

FMA

58238

UBERON

0000964

Wikidata

Q168291