fovea centralis

A depression in the inner retinal surface within the macula lutea, the photoreceptor layer of which is entirely cones and which is specialized for maximum visual acuity. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the fovea centralis is

A depression in the inner retinal surface within the macula lutea, the photoreceptor layer of which is entirely cones and which is specialized for maximum visual acuity. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the fovea centralis is

It sits in the head, within the nervous and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the fovea centralis connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of macula lutea.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the fovea centralis. 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 fovea, centre of macula, fovea centralis in macula and centre of fovea. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001786, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: macula lutea.
• A kind of: organ part.
• contains: clivus of fovea centralis and foveola of retina.

Questions

Where is the fovea centralis?

It sits in the head, within the nervous and sensory systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the fovea centralis connect to?

Part of: macula lutea.

Is the fovea centralis 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.