cornea in dogs

The transparent anterior portion of the fibrous coat of the eye that serves as the chief refractory structure. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cornea is

The transparent anterior portion of the fibrous coat of the eye that serves as the chief refractory structure. The atlas records it as an anatomical structure at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the cornea 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 cornea connects to

The atlas records 20 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of anterior segment of eyeball, eyeball of camera-type eye and ocular surface region, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cornea. 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 cornea of camera-type eye, corneas and tunica cornea. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000964, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anterior segment of eyeball, eyeball of camera-type eye, ocular surface region and organ.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• contains: anterior limiting lamina of cornea, corneal epithelium, corneal blood vessel, corneal endothelium, Descemet's membrane and line of Schwalbe, and 1 more.
• contributes to morphology of: anterior segment of eyeball, corneal endothelium, corneal epithelium and substantia propria of cornea.
• Continuous with: sclera.
• Develops from: optic eminence.
• bounding layer of: corneal epithelium.
• connects: corneo-scleral junction.

Questions

Where is the cornea?

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 cornea connect to?

Part of: anterior segment of eyeball, eyeball of camera-type eye, ocular surface region and organ.

Is the cornea 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.