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anterior limiting lamina of cornea
- Term ID
- UBERON:0004370
- Synonyms
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- anterior elastic lamina
- anterior limiting lamina
- anterior limiting lamina of cornea
- anterior limiting membrane
- Bowman's anterior elastic lamina
- Bowman's layer
- Bowman's membrane
- lamina limitans anterior (cornea)
- lamina limitans anterior corneae
- Reichert's membrane
- Definition
- A transparent homogeneous acellular layer, 6 to 9 um thick, lying between the basal lamina of the outer layer of stratified epithelium and the substantia propria of the cornea; it is considered to be a basement membrane.
- References
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- Bowman%27s:membrane
- MA:0001240
- NCIT:C32226
- TAO:0002155
- UMLS:C0229127
- ZFA:0001684
- http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0229127
- http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/281075003
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