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conjunctiva
Sign in to savethumb|Image of a human eye showing the blood vessels of the bulbar conjunctiva thumb|Hyperaemia of the superficial bulbar conjunctiva blood vessels
Key facts
- Anatomy.Name
- Conjunctiva
- Anatomy.Latin
- tunica conjunctiva
- Anatomy.Image
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- Anatomy.Caption
- The upper half of a sagittal section through the front of the eyeball (label for 'Conjunctiva' visible at center-left)
- Anatomy.Image2
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- Anatomy.Caption2
- Horizontal section of the eyeball (conjunctiva labeled at upper left)
- Anatomy.part_of
- Eye
- Anatomy.Artery
- Lacrimal artery, anterior ciliary arteries
- Anatomy.Nerve
- Supratrochlear nerve
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
29,322 papers- Streaming conjunctiva.The Anatomical record · 1996
- Ocular surface repair using decellularized porcine conjunctiva.Acta biomaterialia · 2020
- Decellularised conjunctiva for ocular surface reconstruction.Acta biomaterialia · 2018
- Eyelids, lacrimal apparatus, and conjunctiva.Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) · 1973
- Eyelids, lacrimal apparatus, and conjunctiva.Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) · 1968
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Structure
- Blood supply
- Nerve supply
- Microanatomy
- Function
- Clinical significance
- Bulbar conjunctival microvasculature
- Vessel morphology
- Blood oxygen dynamics
- Blood vessel imaging methods
- Vasodilation
- See also
- Additional images
- References
- External links
thumb|Image of a human eye showing the blood vessels of the bulbar conjunctiva thumb|Hyperaemia of the superficial bulbar conjunctiva blood vessels
In the anatomy of the eye, the conjunctiva (: conjunctivae) is a thin mucous membrane that lines the inside of the eyelids and covers the sclera (the white of the eye). It is composed of non-keratinized, stratified squamous epithelium with goblet cells, stratified columnar epithelium and stratified cuboidal epithelium (depending on the zone). The conjunctiva is highly vascularised, with many microvessels easily accessible for imaging studies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “conjunctiva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.