corneal epithelium in dogs

The smooth stratified squamous epithelium that covers the outer surface of the cornea. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the corneal epithelium is

The smooth stratified squamous epithelium that covers the outer surface of the cornea. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the dog.

Where the corneal epithelium 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 corneal epithelium connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of cornea.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the corneal epithelium. 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 anterior corneal epithelium, cornea epithelial tissue, cornea epithelium, epithelial tissue of cornea, epithelium anterius (cornea) and epithelium anterius corneae, and 9 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001772, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cornea.
• A kind of: eye epithelium.
• Attaches to: anterior limiting lamina of cornea.
• Adjacent to: bulbar conjunctiva.
• bounding layer of: cornea.
• contributes to morphology of: cornea.
• Develops from: external ectoderm.

Questions

Where is the corneal epithelium?

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 corneal epithelium connect to?

Part of: cornea.

Is the corneal epithelium 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.