eyelash

Any of the hairs that grow at the edge of the upper or lower eyelid. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the eyelash is

Any of the hairs that grow at the edge of the upper or lower eyelid. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the eyelash is

It sits within the integumentary 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 eyelash connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of strand of hair.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the eyelash. 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 eyelid cilium, blepharis, cilia, cilium, eyelid cilia and hair of eyelid. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001702, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: strand of hair.
• Attaches to: eyelid.
• subtype: lower eyelash and upper eyelash.

Questions

Where is the eyelash?

It sits within the integumentary 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 eyelash connect to?

A kind of: strand of hair.

Is the eyelash 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.