uvea
noun
the vascular tunic of the eye, comprising the iris, choroid coat, and ciliary body.
uveal
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a word derived from
uvea.
Example Sentences
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A few months ago, Martinez was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic cancer — a byproduct of a five-year fight with uveal melanoma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
Kammula is now evaluating the score prospectively in an ongoing TIL therapy clinical trial at Pitt for patients with metastatic uveal melanoma.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
Glossop's Craig Shore, whose ocular uveal melanoma has mutated to his liver, has been informed the NHS cannot provide chemosaturation.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024
In 2001, a German doctor, Andreas Strang, found that rates of mobile phone use were much higher among a group of 118 uveal melanoma patients than in a control group.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2016
The increase of intra-ocular pressure noted in cases of uveal inflammation, to be presently referred to, may be due to some such tendency.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance
