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Sclerotic coat

noun
1.
The whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball.  Synonym: sclera.






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"Sclerotic coat" Quotes from Famous Books



... attachment of those muscles which move this organ. The opening in the fore part of this opaque coat is filled by the transparent cornea, which resembles a watch crystal in shape, and is received into a groove in the front part of the sclerotic coat in the same manner that a watch-glass is received into its case. But for this arrangement light could not gain ...
— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew

... blindness was produced without solution of continuity of the sclerotic coat, the nature of the lesion was probably in most cases vibratory concussion and the development of multiple haemorrhages from choroidal ruptures of a similar nature to those seen in the brain and spinal cord. The actual haemorrhagic areae varied in size; but, as far as my experience went, gross haemorrhages ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins



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