superficial corneal dystrophy
MONDO:0020212Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names superficial corneal dystrophy yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
The superficial corneal dystrophies refer to a group of rare genetically determined corneal dystrophies (CDs) characterized by lesions affecting the corneal epithelium and its basement membrane and the superficial corneal stroma, and variable effects on vision depending on the type of dystrophy.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0020212), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (12)
- corneal intraepithelial dyskeratosis-palmoplantar hyperkeratosis-laryngeal dyskeratosis syndrome
- epithelial basement membrane dystrophy
- epithelial recurrent erosion dystrophy
- gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy
- Grayson-Wilbrandt corneal dystrophy
- hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis
- honey-droplet corneal dystrophy
- Lisch epithelial corneal dystrophy
- Meesmann corneal dystrophy
- Reis-Bucklers corneal dystrophy
- subepithelial mucinous corneal dystrophy
- Thiel-Behnke corneal dystrophy
Other names
3 names
Resolves to: superficial corneal dystrophy
- Also called
- anterior corneal dystrophycorneal epithelium corneal dystrophy (disease)dystrophy of anterior cornea