The transparent anterior portion of the fibrous coat of the eye consisting of five layers: stratified squamous CORNEAL EPITHELIUM; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CORNEAL STROMA; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; and mesenchymal CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM. It serves as the first refracting medium of the eye. It is structurally continuous with the SCLERA, avascular, receiving its nourishment by permeation through spaces between the lamellae, and is innervated by the ophthalmic division of the TRIGEMINAL NERVE via the ciliary nerves and those of the surrounding conjunctiva which together form plexuses. (Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)
    

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Ueber die angeborenen Hornhautverdunklungen / Dr. Fronmüller.

Quaestio medica chirurgica ... An sola lens crystallina cataracte sedes? / [Jean Descemet].

Du kératocone : et de sa correction par les verres coniques / par N.-P. Bénaky.

Un cas de sarcome pigmenté de la cornée / par le Dr. J. Gonin.

Some of the morbid actions of the straight muscles and cornea of the eye explained : and their treatment considered / by Everard Home.