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vitreous humour

noun

  1. the aqueous fluid contained within the interstices of the vitreous body
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It forms the processus falciformis, and from it is derived the vitreous humour.

Perhaps the mode of formation of the vitreous humour in Mammalia may be correlated with the early closing of the choroid slit.

This process is formed much earlier than the vitreous humour, which is first seen in stage O.

Lieberkhn states that in Birds the vitreous humour is formed in a similar fashion.

The one beyond this, and next the retina, is called the vitreous humour, from its resemblance to glass.

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