"Conjunctiva" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lachrymal glands are small lobular organs, situated at the outer and upper orbit of the eye, and have from six to eight ducts, which open upon the conjunctiva, between the eyelid and its inner fold. This secretion is an alkaline, watery fluid. According to Dr. Dalton, its composition ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... vesicles appear on mucous membrane at different parts—the mouth, tongue, soft palate and tonsils—and may also invade the conjunctiva and cornea, or the larynx, where they ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague
... was struck by several fragments of lead from a bullet which broke up against a neighbouring stone. These for the most part lodged in the skin over the left orbicularis muscle, but one also lodged in the conjunctiva and was removed. Some ten days later the patient complained that he could not lift the upper lid. The levator palpebrae was normal, but spasm of the orbicularis held the eye firmly closed. The condition did not improve, ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins
... opaque, fibrous membrane, which, in a great measure, maintains the form of the eyeball and protects the more delicate structures within it. Its interior portion, which is covered by the ocular conjunctiva, is commonly known as the "white of the eye." In form it is bell-shaped, and the optic nerve pierces it behind like a handle, the perforation being a little to its inner side. In front, the rim of the bell becomes continuous with the ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture
... 1. The conjunctiva 2. The albuginea or sclerotic 3. The cornea 4. The secundina (choroid) 5. The rethilea (retina) 6. The aranea (iris) 7. The uvea perforata (posterior ...
— Gilbertus Anglicus - Medicine of the Thirteenth Century • Henry Ebenezer Handerson |
