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Crystalline lens   /krˈɪstəlˌaɪn lɛnz/   Listen
Crystalline lens

noun
1.
Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina.  Synonyms: lens, lens of the eye.






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"Crystalline lens" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the crystalline lens of the eye. It is a disease of light-coloured eyes, as the gutta serena is of dark ones. On cutting off with scissars the cornea of a calf's eye, and holding it in the palm of one's hand, so as to gain a proper light, the artery, which supplies nutriment ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... In Section 114, we obtained on a movable screen, by means of a simple lens, an image of a candle. The human eye possesses a most wonderful lens and screen (Fig. 78); the lens is called the crystalline lens, and the screen is called the retina. Rays of light pass from the object through the pupil P, go through the crystalline lens L, where they are refracted, and then pass onward to the retina R, where they form a distinct ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark



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