cornea
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 human body.
Where the cornea is
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the cornea connects to
The atlas records 19 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of anterior segment of eyeball, camera-type eye and tunica fibrosa of eyeball.
Supply and innervation
Innervation: long ciliary nerve.
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, camera-type eye and tunica fibrosa of eyeball.
- A kind of: anatomical structure and organ subunit.
- contains: anterior limiting lamina of cornea, corneal epithelium, corneal endothelium, Descemet's membrane, line of Schwalbe and substantia propria of cornea.
- contributes to morphology of: anterior segment of eyeball, corneal endothelium, corneal epithelium and substantia propria of cornea.
- Continuous with: sclera.
- bounding layer of: corneal epithelium.
- connects: corneo-scleral junction.
- Innervated by: long ciliary nerve.
Questions
Where is the cornea?
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the cornea connect to?
Part of: anterior segment of eyeball, camera-type eye and tunica fibrosa of eyeball.
Is the cornea the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.