Schlemm's canal
Sinus venosus sclerae
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- What it is
- A circular channel running around the eye in the limbal sclera, just outside the trabecular meshwork of the drainage angle.
- Function
- Collects aqueous humour filtered through the trabecular meshwork and passes it to the episcleral veins.
- Size
- Ring ~12 mm across; channel ~0.2-0.3 mm wide.
- Clinical note
- Resistance to outflow here raises eye pressure in open-angle glaucoma; minimally invasive glaucoma stents are placed into the canal.