Preferred Label : ciliary body;
Uberon definition : the thickened portion of the vascular tunic, which lies between the choroid and the
iris, composed of ciliary muscle and ciliary processes;
Uberon synonym : ocular ciliary body;
Uberon related term : ciliary bodies; anterior uvea;
Uberon Homology note : The eye of the adult lamprey is remarkably similar to our own, and it possesses numerous
features (including the expression of opsin genes) that are very similar to those
of the eyes of jawed vertebrates. The lamprey's camera-like eye has a lens, an iris
and extra-ocular muscles (five of them, unlike the eyes of jawed vertebrates, which
have six), although it lacks intra-ocular muscles. Its retina also has a structure
very similar to that of the retinas of other vertebrates, with three nuclear layers
comprised of the cell bodies of photoreceptors and bipolar, horizontal, amacrine and
ganglion cells. The southern hemisphere lamprey, Geotria australis, possesses five
morphological classes of retinal photoreceptor and five classes of opsin, each of
which is closely related to the opsins of jawed vertebrates. Given these similarities,
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.[well established][VHOG];
Origin ID : 0001775;
UMLS CUI : C0008779;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Uberon cross reference
- continuous with
- contributes to morphology of
- develops from
- has part
- part of
the thickened portion of the vascular tunic, which lies between the choroid and the
iris, composed of ciliary muscle and ciliary processes
