sclera in dogs

Opaque fibrous outer layer of the eyeball[ZFA,Kardong,WP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the sclera is

Opaque fibrous outer layer of the eyeball[ZFA,Kardong,WP]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the sclera 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 sclera connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of eyeball of camera-type eye and organ.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the sclera. 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 scleral capsule. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001773, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: eyeball of camera-type eye and organ.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• Adjacent to: bulbar conjunctiva, conjunctiva and optic choroid.
• Continuous with: cornea and dura mater.
• contributes to morphology of: camera-type eye.
• Develops from: mesenchyme derived from head neural crest.
• connects: corneo-scleral junction.

Questions

Where is the sclera?

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 sclera connect to?

Part of: eyeball of camera-type eye and organ.

Is the sclera 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.