Corneal Epithelium

Preferred Label : Corneal Epithelium;

NCIt definition : Stratified squamous cell tissue that covers the outer surface of the cornea.;

Alternative definition : CDISC: The epithelial layer of the cornea.;

Details

Origin ID

C12928;

UMLS CUI

C0459875;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Cornea [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- All corneal epithelium (body structure) [Inactive SNOMED CT concept]
- Epithelium of cornea [FMA entity]
- Structure of corneal epithelium (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- corneal epithelium [UBERON concept]
- epithelium of cornea [Radlex concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- epithelium, corneal [MeSH Descriptor]
- epithelium, corneal [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Tissue [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Epithelium of cornea [FMA entity]
- Structure of corneal epithelium (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- corneal epithelium [UBERON concept]
- epithelium of cornea [Radlex concept]
- epithelium, corneal [MeSH concept]
- epithelium, corneal [MeSH Descriptor]
- external epithelium of cornea [SNOMED Notion]
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- CDISC SDTM Anatomical Location Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CDISC SDTM Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CDISC SEND Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology [NCIt concept]
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- Corneal Squamous Cell Carcinoma [NCIt concept]

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