Description

The cornea is the transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber, providing most of an eye's optical power. Together with the lens, the cornea refracts light and, as a result, helps the eye to focus. The cornea contributes more to the total refraction than the lens does, but, whereas the curvature of the lens can be adjusted to tune the focus, the curvature of the cornea is fixed. The cornea has unmyelinated nerve endings sensitive to touch, temperature and chemicals; a touch of the cornea causes an involuntary reflex to close the eyelid. Because transparency is of prime importance the cornea does not have blood vessels ; it receives nutrients via diffusion from the tear fluid at the outside and the aqueous humour at the inside and also from neurotrophins supplied by nerve fibres that innervate it. In humans, the cornea has a diameter of about 11.5 mm and a thickness of 0.5 mm - 0.6 mm in the center and 0.6 mm - 0.8 mm at the periphery. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Cornea (Wikipedia)

Basic Part Properties

Part Name
Crn
Part Display Name
Cornea
Part Type
System (Describes the name of the system (sample) type)
Created On
2000-05-03
Construct for LOINC Short Name
Crn

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Language Variants Get Info

TagLanguageTranslation
zh-CNChinese (China)角膜
fr-CAFrench (Canada)Cornée
et-EEEstonian (Estonia)Crn
Synonyms: Sarvkest
es-ESSpanish (Spain)Cornea
it-ITItalian (Italy)Cornea
Synonyms: Cornea
tr-TRTurkish (Turkey)Krn
ru-RURussian (Russian Federation)Ргвц
Synonyms: Роговица
nl-NLDutch (Netherlands)cornea
Synonyms: hoornvlies
fr-BEFrench (Belgium)Cornée
fr-FRFrench (France)Cornée
pl-PLPolish (Poland)rogówka
el-GRGreek (Greece)Crn
Synonyms: Crn