corneal epithelium

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 human body.

Where the corneal epithelium 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 epithelium connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 7 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 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: camera-type eye, cornea, organ and sensory system.
• A kind of: 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. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the corneal epithelium connect to?

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

Is the corneal epithelium 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.