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 at the bases of the rods and cones.
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Photoreceptor cells (Cone cell, Rod cell) → (Horizontal cell) → Bipolar cell → (Amacrine cell) → Ganglion cell
Giant retinal ganglion cells | Photosensitive ganglion cell
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
