iris

Definition

The adjustable membrane, composed of the stroma and pigmented epithelium, located just in front of the crystalline lens within the eye.

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/).

Relations

Arterial supply

long posterior ciliary arteries, anterior ciliary arteries

Parts in this atlas

• right iris
• left iris

Neighbouring structures

• choroid

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Wikipedia (English)

Identifiers

TA2

6753

TA98

A15.2.03.020

FMA

58235

UBERON

0001769

Wikidata

Q178748