vitreous humor

A transparent, semigelatinous substance that fills the cavity behind the crystalline lens of the eye and in front of the retina. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the vitreous humor is

A transparent, semigelatinous substance that fills the cavity behind the crystalline lens of the eye and in front of the retina. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the vitreous humor is

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

What the vitreous humor connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of camera-type eye and vitreous body.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the vitreous humor. 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 portion of vitreous humor, humor vitreous, humor vitreus, vitreous, whole portion of vitreous humor and humoral fluid, and 3 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001797, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the vitreous humor?

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

What does the vitreous humor connect to?

Part of: camera-type eye and vitreous body.

Is the vitreous humor 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.