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EYE-LENS

Specialty Definition: EYE-LENS

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Medicine

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: EYE-LENS

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "EYE-LENS": fish-eye-lens.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: EYE-LENS

Language Translations for "EYE-LENS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

cristallin (lens of the eye). (various references)

   

German

  

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

   

Pig Latin

  

eye-lensay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: EYE-LENS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-n-s-y"

-2 letters: lenes, lense, seely.

-3 letters: eels, eely, else, eyen, eyes, eyne, lees, lens, leys, lyes, lyse, seel, seen, sene, snye, syne, yens.

-4 letters: eel, els, ens, eye, lee, ley, lye, nee, see, sel, sen, sly, syn, yen, yes.

-5 letters: el, en, es, ne, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-n-s-y"
 

+1 letter: serenely.

 

+2 letters: ethylenes, eyeliners.

 

+3 letters: acetylenes, goldeneyes, methylenes, needlessly, newsweekly, prepensely.

 

+4 letters: defensively, expensively, extensively, nervelessly, polygeneses, senselessly.

 

+5 letters: beseechingly, cyclogeneses, eleemosynary, excrescently, glycogeneses, interestedly, moneylenders, nonemployees, relentlessly, resplendency, serpentinely, unreservedly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EYE-LENS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 59 45 2D 4C 45 4E 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01011001 01000101 00101101 01001100 01000101 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#89 &#69 &#45 &#76 &#69 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0059 0045 002D 004C 0045 004E 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3959391546394853

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INDEX

1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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