conjunctiva in dogs

The mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelids and the front of the eyeball. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the conjunctiva is

The mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelids and the front of the eyeball. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the conjunctiva is

It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What the conjunctiva connects to

The atlas records 16 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of anatomical structure, camera-type eye and ocular surface region, and 2 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the conjunctiva. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as conjunctivae, conjunctivas, tunica conjunctiva and wall of conjunctival sac. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001811, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical structure, camera-type eye, ocular surface region, orbital region and organ.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and organ.
• Adjacent to: eyelid and sclera.
• contains: bulbar conjunctiva, conjunctival fornix, epithelium of conjunctiva, nictitating membrane and palpebral conjunctiva.
• contributes to morphology of: anterior segment of eyeball.
• Develops from: external ectoderm.

Questions

Where is the conjunctiva?

It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What does the conjunctiva connect to?

Part of: anatomical structure, camera-type eye, ocular surface region, orbital region and organ.

Is the conjunctiva the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.