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Across 3. Corneal layer with bare naked nerve endings 8. Coup de grâce of dares 10. Secret message, "Be sure to drink your _____" 12. Descemet's termination 14. Hydrophilic proteoglycan components 16. Cause of blindness you won't learn about in optometry school 18. Limbal structure that serves as anchor 22. Basal cell anchor 23. Usual shape of corneal endothelial cell 25. Catalyst for primary corneal endothelial water pump 26. Name of movie for this puzzle 29. Corneal epithelial cell life cycle is 7 to 10 _____ 32. Time you'd wait to see regeneration of corneal endothelium 34. Anterior ciliary arteries are found mostly in this layer 35. Teeny tiny central corneal convexity into the anterior chamber 37. Skin epithelium is, and corneal epithelium ain't 38. Belt-like cell junction 39. Corneal fibroblast

Down 1. Layer between epithelium & stroma named for him 2. It's just outer to episclera 4. In corneal trauma basal cells can spread 60-100 microns per ____ 5. Squamous cell precursor 6. Metabolism pathway in which cornea gets most energy 7. When corneal endothelial cells vary a lot in size 9. Novel corneal lamina? 11. Scleral fibrils weaving between II fibers 13. Would not let go of Flick's tongue 14. All collagen includes this amino acid 15. These corneal epithelium cells slough off into the tear film 17. Old Man's prized "Major Award" 19. Kid brother and "Mommy's little piggy" 20. Crucial proteoglycan protein core 21. Demonstrates strength and elasticity of Descemet's 24. Old Man's smoking nemesis 27. Preferred BB gun type 28. Where cornea and sclera merge 30. About 90% of corneal thickness 31. Endothelium basement membrane named for him 32. Only word in Old Man's Italian vocabulary 33. Build-up of this occurs in in corneal epithelial edema 36. Corneal epithelium's germinal layer