crystalline lens
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of crystalline lens
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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Grayson is blind, the result of a rare genetic disorder that stunts the development of the iris and the crystalline lens covering the eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
When light enters a new transparent medium, like the crystalline lens of your eye or the glass lens of a microscope, it is bent either away or toward the line perpendicular to the boundary surface.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Dr. Felix Bernstein, a German refugee in Manhattan, developed a machine which measures the elasticity of the crystalline lens of the eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
Immediately behind the iris lies the crystalline lens, which focuses light images upon the retina.
From Time Magazine Archive
How far it will alter the received views upon the subject of changes in the strength of vision, which are now attributed to alterations in the distance of the crystalline lens, cannot be foretold.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
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