These resulted in trips to the ER for burns, corneal abrasions, and the odd amputation.
The epidermic layer gives rise to the corneal lenses, the crystalline cones, and the pigment around the latter.
The corneal reflex may be abolished, and still the patient may move.
It is designed to ascertain variations in corneal curvature for the correction of corneal astigmatism.
It is then divided as close to the corneal wound as possible.
The outer stratum gives rise to the corneal corpuscles, which are the only constituents of the cornea not yet developed.
In all simple eyes the corneal lens is formed by a thickening of the cuticle.
It could have been a corneal tattoo, but somehow I doubted it.
A broad cutting needle should then be introduced at the lower or outer edge of the corneal margin.
In 671 Scolopendra, where there are four, the corneal lens is a biconvex thickening of the cuticle.
late 14c., from Medieval Latin cornea tela "horny web or sheath," from Latin cornu (genitive cornus) "horn" (see horn (n.)). So called for its consistency. Related: Corneal.
cornea cor·ne·a (kôr'nē-ə)
n.
The transparent, convex, anterior portion of the outer fibrous coat of the eyeball that covers the iris and the pupil and is continuous with the sclera.
