substantia propria of cornea

The lamellated connective tissue of the cornea between the Bowman and Descemet membranes. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the substantia propria of cornea is

The lamellated connective tissue of the cornea between the Bowman and Descemet membranes. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the substantia propria of cornea 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 substantia propria of cornea connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of cornea.

Supply and innervation

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001777, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the substantia propria of cornea?

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 substantia propria of cornea connect to?

Part of: cornea.

Is the substantia propria of cornea 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.