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

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Scope note

  • The portion of the crystalline lens surrounding the nucleus and bound anteriorly by the epithelium and posteriorly by the capsule. It contains lens fibers and amorphous, intercellular substance.

History note

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

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007904

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