vitreous humour
Britishnoun
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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
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 one beyond this, and next the retina, is called the vitreous humour, from its resemblance to glass.
From The Boys' And Girls' Library by Various
The convexity of its posterior surface is received into an equal concavity of the vitreous humour.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas
The Vitreous Humour.—The vitreous humour loses its transparency owing to exudation from the inflamed ciliary body or choroid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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