External limiting membrane
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| External limiting membrane | |
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| Section of retina. (Membrana limitans externa labeled at right, third from the bottom.) | |
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| Plan of retinal neurons. (Membrana limitans externa labeled at left, second from the bottom.) | |
| Latin | membrana limitans externa |
| Gray's | subject #225 1017 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | m_08/12522817 |
In the outer nuclear layer they form a network around the rod- and cone-fibrils, and unite to form the external limiting membrane (or outer limiting membrane) at the bases of the rods and cones.
Additional images
 Rods and cones |
External links
- Histology at BU 07902loa
- http://www.med.uiuc.edu/histo/small/atlas/objects/126.htm
- Slide at uc.edu
- http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/eye_ear/eye12.htm
- http://education.vetmed.vt.edu/Curriculum/VM8054/EYE/RETINA.HTM
This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained herein may be outdated. Please edit the article if this is the case, and feel free to remove this notice when it is no longer relevant.
Sensory system - Visual system - Eye - Retina | |
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| cells | Photoreceptor cells (Cone cell, Rod cell) → (Horizontal cell) → Bipolar cell → (Amacrine cell) → Ganglion cell Giant retinal ganglion cells - Photosensitive ganglion cell - Muller glia |
| layers | Inner limiting membrane - Nerve fiber layer - Ganglion cell layer - Inner plexiform layer - Inner nuclear layer - Outer plexiform layer - Outer nuclear layer - External limiting membrane - Layer of rods and cones - Retinal pigment epithelium |
