ocular surface region

UBERON:0010409 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·CLOSE REVIEWED

The integrated unit (of the eye) that consists of the conjunctiva, the corneal surface, and the ocular mucosal adnexa including the lid margins and the meibomian gland openings, the lacrimal glands and the lacrimal drainage system, all which are critical to maintain ocular surface integrity and provide protection from external antigens and pathogenic microorganisms. — UBERON

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Visual system > Eye > Ocular surface	1	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

organ subunit UBERON:0000063
Eye habitatmech:GOLD.b7f1694b87

Also called

Ocular surface — GOLD
eye surface — UBERON
eye surface region — UBERON
ocular surface — UBERON

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

REVIEW 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. CLOSE-grounding review (#12): read against the full source path and the term's own definition. The grounding is right and CLOSE is the honest status — the term is the concept with a difference of framing or specificity that EXACT would overstate. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.e65dc49531)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.