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
There are also three refracting media, the aqueous humour, the lens and the vitreous humour or body.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 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
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
The crystalline lens was remarkably soft, and scarcely of more consistency than the vitreous humour.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von
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