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Cornea

noun

(pl. corneas)

The transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera.

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"Cornea" Quotes from Famous Books

... modelling-wax, not clay, and fixed in the orbits with wax, see ante. These, properly coloured, and, in the instance of fishes, gilded inside, are wonderful representations of the natural eye, and when properly inserted, the cornea in mammals reproduced by wax, and the eyelids properly managed, give a most life-like and natural appearance to any specimen. [Footnote: Glass eyes have of late been much improved in shape and colour by the Germans, and also by some English ...

— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne

... as it is sometimes called, surgical anatomy, does for the surgeon with reference to the part on which his skill is to be exercised. It enables him to see with the mind's eye through the opaque tissues down to the bone on which they lie, as if the skin were transparent as the cornea, and the organs it covers translucent as the gelatinous ...

— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... altera fertur Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris: Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, Sed falsa ad coelum ...

— The Advancement of Learning • Francis Bacon

Words linked to "Cornea" : arcus, oculus, tissue layer, corneal, eye, optic, arcus senilis, membrane