vitreous humour

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noun

1. the aqueous fluid contained within the interstices of the vitreous body

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vitreous humour

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

Removal of the Lens.—This must be done with the most extreme caution and gentleness, lest the vitreous humour be also evacuated.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

An outgrowth of brain substance, on the other hand, forms the retina, while a third process is a lateral ingrowth of connective tissue, which afterwards changes into the vitreous humour of the eye.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George

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

Hydrophthalmia, hī-drof-thal′mi-a, n. an increase in quantity of the aqueous or the vitreous humour.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various