vitreous humour
Britishnoun
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The hollow of the ball is full of a jelly-like substance called the vitreous humour; and the cavity between the lens and the cornea is full of water.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald
The glioma of the retina tends to grow into the vitreous humour and to perforate the globe.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Hy′alite, a variety of opal like colourless gum; Hyalīt′is, inflammation of the vitreous humour; Hyalog′raphy, the art of engraving on glass.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Occasionally the lens, and even a little vitreous humour, may escape at once on the section being completed, but this is not to be desired. b.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
From this artery, a small branch goes through the middle of the vitreous humour, and giving off branches on every side, expands itself upon the capsule of the crystalline lens.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas
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