The conjunctival epithelium in the domestic ruminants. I. Lightmicroscopic investigations

The conjunctiva of the domestic ruminants is covered by several kinds of epithelia which intergrade smoothly. There is a stratified nonkeratinized squamous epithelium which covers the greater part of the conjunctival mucous membrane. There is a stratified cuboidal, stratified mixed and occasionally a stratified goblet cell epithelium, localized mainly in the area of the fornix conjunctivae. In the area of the "serrated crest" of the nictitating membrane as well as the transition between conjunctiva and cornea, but also in the other conjunctival regions, the propria mucosae and the epithelium contains a few or numerous migrating lymphoid cells.