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The cornea is the clear front layer of your eye that sits over the colored part (iris) and pupil, and it works together with other eye structures to bend light so you can see clearly. It does most of the heavy lifting for your eye's focusing power—about two-thirds of it—which is why keeping it healthy is important for good vision.
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Key facts
- Anatomy.Latin
- cornea
- Anatomy.Name
- Cornea
- Anatomy.part_of
- Front of eye
- Anatomy.system
- Visual system
- Anatomy.Function
- Refract light
- Anatomy.Image
- Cornea.png
- Anatomy.Caption
- Schematic diagram of the right human eye showing the cornea as separated from the sclera by the corneal limbus
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Research
103,069 papers- Anatomy and physiology of the cornea.ReviewJournal of cataract and refractive surgery · 2011DelMonte DW, Kim TDOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2010.12.037
- Aquaporins in the Cornea.ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024Melnyk S, Bollag WBDOI: 10.3390/ijms25073748
- Angiography of the Limbus and Cornea.ReviewInternational ophthalmology clinics · 2019Wang Y, Chodosh JDOI: 10.1097/IIO.0000000000000283
- A single cell atlas of human cornea that defines its development, limbal progenitor cells and their interactions with the immune cells.The ocular surface · 2021Collin J, Queen R, Zerti D et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jtos.2021.03.010
- Single-cell transcriptomics identifies limbal stem cell population and cell types mapping its differentiation trajectory in limbal basal epithelium of human cornea.The ocular surface · 2021Li DQ, Kim S, Li JM et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jtos.2020.12.004
- Corneal cross-linking.ReviewProgress in retinal and eye research · 2025Hafezi F, Kling S, Hafezi NL et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2024.101322
- Laser refractive correction of presbyopia.ReviewIndian journal of ophthalmology · 2024Ganesh S, Sriganesh SSDOI: 10.4103/IJO.IJO_3074_23
- Primary Culture of Cornea-Limbal Epithelial Cells In Vitro.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2020O'Sullivan FDOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0599-8_3
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- human eye
- Has part
- corneal endothelium
- Image
- Vertical section human cornea-Gray871.png
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- Cornea
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C12342
- Commons category
- Cornea
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