pinguecula
MONDO:0001179Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names pinguecula yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A yellowish thickened lesion on the conjunctiva near the cornea representing a benign degenerative change in the conjunctiva caused by the leakage and deposition of certain blood proteins through the permeable capillaries near the limbus.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0001179), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.