Lens

Of eye and organ.   May also be referred to as crystalline lens and lens of the eye.

Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina.

This concept's ID is @1~29078

Contains

  • lens capsule 0 facts

    A tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye.

  • lens cortex 0 facts

    The tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus.