External limiting membrane
Section of retina. (Membrana limitans externa labeled at right, third from the bottom.)
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

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