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Crystalline Lens

Definition: Crystalline Lens

Crystalline Lens

Noun

1. Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; it focuses light waves on the retina.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Crystalline Lens

DomainDefinition

Medicine

Lens: the --, a transparent organ lying behind the pupil and iris and in front of the large vitreous-filled cavity of the eye. Source: European Union. (references)
 The biconvex, normally transparent and resilient, lenticular body directly behind the pupil of the eye and nested in the patellar fossa of the vitreous body. Source: European Union. (references)
 Biconvex, normally transparent and resilient, lenticular body directly behind the pupil of the eye and nested in the patellar fossa of the vitreous body, having a relatively high index of refraction and an anterior surface whose convexity responds to ciliary muscle action. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonym: Crystalline Lens

Synonym: lens (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Crystalline Lens

English words defined with "crystalline lens": presbyope, presbyopia. (references)
Specialty definitions using "crystalline lens": Aphakia, Postcataract, aqueous fluidcataractopiesis, Cataracts, congenita, crystalline humorectopia lentis, ectopia lentis congenita, Egger line, equator of crystalline lenshague, Hague cataract lampLens Capsule, Crystalline, Lens Cortex, Crystalline, Lens Implantation, Intraocular, Lens Nucleus, CrystallinePurkinje-Sanson images. (references)

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Expression: Crystalline Lens

Expression using "crystalline lens": equator of crystalline lens. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: Crystalline Lens

Language Translations for "crystalline lens"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

linseluksation (displacement of the crystalline lens), linseækvator (equator of crystalline lens), ækvator lentis (equator of crystalline lens). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

geluxeerde lens (displacement of the crystalline lens), aequator lentis (equator of crystalline lens). (various references)

   

French

  

cristallin (crystalline), lens. (various references)

   

German

  

Lens crystallina (eye-lens, lens of the eye), Lens (eye-lens, lens of the eye), Kristallinse (eye-lens, lens of the eye), Augenlinse (eye-lens, intraocular lens, lens of the eye). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παρεκτόπιση του κρυσταλλώδους φακού (displacement of the crystalline lens). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szemlencse (crystalline, eye-glass, eyepiece, ocular), emberi szemlencse. (various references)

   

Italian

  

lussazione del cristallino (displacement of the crystalline lens), equatore del cristallino (equator of crystalline lens), aequator lentis (equator of crystalline lens). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

水晶" (the crystalline lens). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すいしょうたい (the crystalline lens). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ystallinecray enslay

   

Portuguese

  

cristalino (med.). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cristalino (crystalline, lens). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

lens (contact lens), göz merceği (lens). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Crystalline Lens

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-l-l-n-n-r-s-s-t-y"

-4 letters: celestially, centralises, cleanliness, crystalline, crystallise, essentially, incessantly, insensately, intercensal, linecasters, literalness, lyricalness, necessarily, stencillers, transiences.

-5 letters: ancestries, cannisters, carelessly, cartelises, celestials, centralise, cleanliest, clientless, eyestrains, installers, interclass, interlaces, internally, larcenists, linecaster, nectarines, reinstalls, resistance, stencilers, stenciller, sterically, syncretise, tirelessly, transience, transiency, tyrannises.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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