lens of camera-type eye
A transparent and refractive lens located posterior to the iris. The lens of camera-type eye refracts light to be focused on the retina. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the lens of camera-type eye is
A transparent and refractive lens located posterior to the iris. The lens of camera-type eye refracts light to be focused on the retina. The atlas records it as an anatomical structure at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the lens of camera-type eye is
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the lens of camera-type eye connects to
The atlas records 18 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of anterior segment of eyeball, eye and camera-type eye.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: hyaloid artery.
Also called
Also recorded as camera-type eye lens, eye lens, lens, lens crystallina, crystalline lens and lenses, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000965, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: anterior segment of eyeball, eye and camera-type eye.
- A kind of: anatomical structure.
- contains: capsule of lens, epithelium of lens, lens anterior epithelium, lens cortex, lens fiber and lens nucleus, and 1 more.
- contributes to morphology of: anterior segment of eyeball, epithelium of lens and lens fiber.
- Develops from: lens placode.
- bounding layer of: capsule of lens.
- Supplied by: hyaloid artery.
- Continuous with: suspensory ligament of lens.
Questions
Where is the lens of camera-type eye?
It sits in the head, within the sensory system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the lens of camera-type eye connect to?
Part of: anterior segment of eyeball, eye and camera-type eye.
Is the lens of camera-type eye 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.