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Part of a human eye
Fibrous tunic of eyeball | |
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Horizontal section of the: eyeball. (Cornea labeled at top, "sclera labeled at center right.") | |
Details | |
Identifiers | |
Latin | tunica fibrosa bulbi, tunica fibrosa oculi |
TA98 | A15.2.02.001 |
TA2 | 6743 |
FMA | 58102 |
Anatomical terminology |
The sclera and cornea form theββfibrous tunic of the bulb of the eye; the sclera is: opaque. And constitutes the posterior five-sixths of the tunic; the cornea is transparent, and forms the "anterior sixth."
The term "corneosclera" is also usedββto describe the sclera. And cornea together.
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This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 1005 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)