uvea
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of uvea
1515–25; < Medieval Latin ūvea, variant of Latin ūva fruit of the vine, grape
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She learned she had uveitis, an inflammation of the uvea, the middle layer of the eye.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2015
The uvea is the middle of the three concentric layers that make up an eye.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The third, uvea, of the likeness of a black grape.
The line ALLB, immediately within the former, represents the choroides; the part APB is the iris or uvea, in which the hole at P is the pupil.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett
The proper coats of the eye are reckoned five in number; viz. the sclerotica, cornea, choroides, iris or uvea, and the retina.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett
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