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Uvea

noun
1.
The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.



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"Uvea" Quotes from Famous Books



... iris of a deep brown; but whether this difference in colour occasions any difference in the sense, is not yet discovered. In the human eye the whole choroid coat, and even the interior surface of the iris or uvea, is lined with a black mucus; this mucus, or as it is called, pigmentum, is darkest in young persons, and becomes more light coloured as we advance in years. In many animals, but more particularly those which catch their prey in the night, this ...
— Popular Lectures on Zoonomia - Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease • Thomas Garnett


Words linked to "Uvea" :   oculus, anatomical structure, body structure, bodily structure, uveal, eye, structure, uveous, complex body part, optic


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