Corneal endothelium

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Corneal endothelium" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Corneal endothelium
Vertical section of human cornea from near the margin. (Corneal endothelium is #5, labeled at bottom right.)
Details
Identifiers
Latin	epithelium posterius corneae
MeSH	D004728
TA98	A15.2.02.022
FMA	312267
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The corneal endothelium is a single layer of endothelial cells on the inner surface of the cornea. It faces the chamber formed between the cornea and the iris.

The corneal endothelium are specialized, flattened, mitochondria-rich cells that line the posterior surface of the cornea and face the anterior chamber of the eye. The corneal endothelium governs fluid and solute transport across the posterior surface of the cornea and maintains the cornea in the slightly dehydrated state that is required for optical transparency.