DeCS

Descriptor English:

Sclera

Descriptor Spanish:

Esclerótica

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	esclerótica
Entry term(s)	esclera espolón escleral
Scope note:	Túnica externa blanca, opaca y fibrosa del globo ocular, que lo cubre completamente, con excepción del segmento cubierto anteriormente por la córnea. Esencialmente es avascular pero contiene aberturas para el paso de vasos, linfáticos y nervios. Recibe los tendones para la inserción de los músculos extraoculares y contiene el CONDUCTO DE SCHLEMM en la unión esclerocorneal. (Traducción libre del original: Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)

Descriptor Portuguese:

Esclera

Descriptor French:

Sclère

Entry term(s):

Sclera
Sclérotique

Tree number(s):

A09.371.784

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012590

Scope note:

The white, opaque, fibrous, outer tunic of the eyeball, covering it entirely excepting the segment covered anteriorly by the cornea. It is essentially avascular but contains apertures for vessels, lymphatics, and nerves. It receives the tendons of insertion of the extraocular muscles and at the corneoscleral junction contains the CANAL OF SCHLEMM. (From Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)

Annotation:

inflammation = SCLERITIS; neoplasms = SCLERAL DISEASES + EYE NEOPLASMS; blue sclera = SCLERA /abnorm

Allowable Qualifiers:

AB malformations
AH anatomie et histologie
BS vascularisation
CH composition chimique
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
DG imagerie diagnostique
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
GD croissance et développement
IM immunologie
IN traumatismes
IR innervation
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
SU chirurgie
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie