lens of camera-type eye in dogs
A transparent and refractive lens located posterior to the iris. The lens of camera-type eye refracts light to be focused on the retina. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the lens of camera-type eye is
A transparent and refractive lens located posterior to the iris. The lens of camera-type eye refracts light to be focused on the retina. The atlas records it as an anatomical structure at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the lens of camera-type eye is
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What the lens of camera-type eye connects to
The atlas records 17 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of anterior segment of eyeball, eye and camera-type eye.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: hyaloid artery.
Also called
Also recorded as camera-type eye lens, eye lens, lens, lens crystallina, crystalline lens and lenses, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000965, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: anterior segment of eyeball, eye and camera-type eye.
- A kind of: anatomical structure.
- contains: capsule of lens, epithelium of lens, lens anterior epithelium, lens fiber and posterior pole of lens.
- contributes to morphology of: anterior segment of eyeball, epithelium of lens and lens fiber.
- Develops from: lens placode and lens vesicle.
- bounding layer of: capsule of lens.
- Supplied by: hyaloid artery.
- Continuous with: suspensory ligament of lens.
Questions
Where is the lens of camera-type eye?
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What does the lens of camera-type eye connect to?
Part of: anterior segment of eyeball, eye and camera-type eye.
Is the lens of camera-type eye 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.