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The membrane that covers the outer surface of the eye and lines the eyelids is the ________.

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The answer is conjunctiva. It is a mucus membrane that is responsible of covering the eye. It is comprise of stratified squamous epithelium and even stratified columnar epithelium that makes the stretchable when pulled and back to its original shape.

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