lens fiber - CISMeF

Preferred Label : lens fiber;

Uberon definition : A region of the lens consisting of packed elongated enucleate cells packed with crystallin;

Uberon synonym : lens fibers; lens fibers set; lens fibres;

Uberon related term : set of lens fibers; lens fibre;

Uberon Homology note : (...) the line, or Y, or star sutures common to mammalian lenses, including those of primates. In the case of line or Y sutures, the overlapping of lens fibers in each successive shell is coincident and results in the formation of four or six three-dimensional suture planes that extend from the lens nucleus to the periphery.[well established][VHOG];

Details

Origin ID

0002444;

UMLS CUI

C0229224;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Fiber cell of lens (cell) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Lens Fiber [NCIt concept]
- Set of lens fibers [FMA entity]
- fibers of lens [SNOMED Notion]
- fibers of lens [Radlex concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Fiber cell of lens (cell) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Lens Fiber [NCIt concept]
- Set of lens fibers [FMA entity]
- fibers of lens [SNOMED Notion]
Uberon cross reference
- Lens Fiber [NCIt concept]
- Set of lens fibers [FMA entity]
contributes to morphology of
- lens of camera-type eye [UBERON concept]
part of
- lens of camera-type eye [UBERON concept]

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