These resulted in trips to the ER for burns, corneal abrasions, and the odd amputation.
The corneal reflex may be abolished, and still the patient may move.
It is then divided as close to the corneal wound as possible.
It could have been a corneal tattoo, but somehow I doubted it.
In all simple eyes the corneal lens is formed by a thickening of the cuticle.
The epidermic layer gives rise to the corneal lenses, the crystalline cones, and the pigment around the latter.
The outer stratum gives rise to the corneal corpuscles, which are the only constituents of the cornea not yet developed.
The patient was then taken back to the ward and the corneal reflex was noticed as being present.
It is designed to ascertain variations in corneal curvature for the correction of corneal astigmatism.
A broad cutting needle should then be introduced at the lower or outer edge of the corneal margin.
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.
