The elastic, clear, membrane-like structure, that is outer most layer of the lens. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15483628 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/smb MP:0003236 ]
Synonyms: lens capsule capsula lentis
Term information
- UMLS:C0229232 (ncithesaurus:Lens_Capsule)
- MA:0001300
- FMA:58881
- EHDAA2:0000977
- EMAPA:18237
- SCTID:244500004
- VHOG:0000550
- ZFA:0005574
- NCIT:C32975
- Wikipedia:Lens_(anatomy)#Lens_capsule
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
The transparent membrane which surrounds the lens of the eye. [Dorian_AF, Elsevier's_encyclopaedic_dictionary_of_medicine, Part_B:_Anatomy_(1988)_Amsterdam_etc.:_Elsevier][VHOG]
FMA classifies this is a capsule and hence an organ part. In contrast we classify this as acellular
(...) we reach the inescapable conclusion that the last common ancestor of jawless and jawed vertebrates already possessed an eye that was comparable to that of extant lampreys and gnathostomes. Accordingly, a vertebrate camera-like eye must have been present by the time that lampreys and gnathostomes diverged, around 500 Mya (reference 1); Although the eye varies greatly in adaptative details among vertebrates, its basic structure is the same in all. The human eye is representative of the design typical for a tetrapod. (...) A watery aqueous humor fills the spaces in the eye in front of the lens (...) (reference 2).[well established][VHOG]
synthesized by the lens epithelium and its main components are Type IV collagen and sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). [Wikipedia:Capsule_of_lens
Term relations
- acellular anatomical structure
- acellular membrane
- ectoderm-derived structure
- has part some sulfated glycosaminoglycan
- part of some lens of camera-type eye
- has quality some transparent
- develops from some epithelium of lens
- bounding layer of some lens of camera-type eye
- has part some collagen type IV trimer
- develops from some lens anterior epithelium