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capsule of lens

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001804

The elastic, clear, membrane-like structure, that is outer most layer of the lens. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/smb MP:0003236 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15483628 ]

Synonyms: capsula lentis, lens capsule

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uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

UBPROP 0000001

The transparent membrane which surrounds the lens of the eye. [Dorian_AF, Elsevier's_encyclopaedic_dictionary_of_medicine, Part_B:_Anatomy_(1988)_Amsterdam_etc.:_Elsevier][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000003

(...) we reach the inescapable conclusion that the last common ancestor of jawless and jawed vertebrates already possessed an eye that was comparable to that of extant lampreys and gnathostomes. Accordingly, a vertebrate camera-like eye must have been present by the time that lampreys and gnathostomes diverged, around 500 Mya (reference 1); Although the eye varies greatly in adaptative details among vertebrates, its basic structure is the same in all. The human eye is representative of the design typical for a tetrapod. (...) A watery aqueous humor fills the spaces in the eye in front of the lens (...) (reference 2).[well established][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000010

synthesized by the lens epithelium and its main components are Type IV collagen and sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). [Wikipedia:Capsule_of_lens

UBPROP 0000012

FMA classifies this is a capsule and hence an organ part. In contrast we classify this as acellular

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UBERON:0001804

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Capsule of lens