corneal endothelium

A monolayer of specialized, flattened, mitochondria-rich cells that lines the posterior surface of the cornea and faces the anterior chamber of the eye[WP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the corneal endothelium is

A monolayer of specialized, flattened, mitochondria-rich cells that lines the posterior surface of the cornea and faces the anterior chamber of the eye[WP]. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the corneal endothelium 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 corneal endothelium connects to

The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of camera-type eye, cornea and organ, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the corneal endothelium. 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 endothelium, endothelium of cornea and epithelium posterius corneae. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001985, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: camera-type eye, cornea, organ and sensory system.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, ecto-epithelium, endothelium and epithelium.
• Adjacent to: anterior chamber of eyeball and Descemet's membrane.
• contributes to morphology of: cornea.
• Develops from: neural crest.
• produces: Descemet's membrane.

Questions

Where is the corneal endothelium?

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 corneal endothelium connect to?

Part of: camera-type eye, cornea, organ and sensory system.

Is the corneal endothelium 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.