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Sense Organs > Eye > Anterior Eye Segment > Lens, Crystalline > Lens Capsule, Crystalline
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Lens Capsule, Crystalline  

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Scope note

  • The thin noncellular outer covering of the CRYSTALLINE LENS composed mainly of COLLAGEN TYPE IV and GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS. It is secreted by the embryonic anterior and posterior epithelium. The embryonic posterior epithelium later disappears.

History note

  • 91(83); was see under LENS, CRYSTALLINE 1983-90

In other languages

  • mykiönkotelo

    Finnish

  • capsula lentis
  • linssin kapseli
  • linssin kotelo
  • linssinkapseli
  • linssinkotelo
  • mykiön kapseli
  • mykiön kotelo
  • mykiönkapseli
  • Linskapsel, kristallin

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007903

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