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 the fibrous 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 used to describe the sclera and cornea together. [1]
This article incorporates text in the
public domain from
page 1005 of the 20th edition of
Gray's Anatomy (1918)