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LENS OF THE EYE

Specialty Definition: LENS OF THE EYE

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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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Crosswords: LENS OF THE EYE

English words defined with "LENS OF THE EYE": accommodation, accommodational, albuminoid, aphakiacataractOphthalmometerscleroprotein. (references)
Specialty definitions using "LENS OF THE EYE": CataractsGalactitolmaatschappelijk. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: LENS OF THE EYE

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Health

Astigmatism is a distortion of the image on the retina caused by irregularities in the cornea or lens of the eye. Combinations of myopia and astigmatism or hyperopia and astigmatism are common. (references)

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Modern Translation: LENS OF THE EYE

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

French

  

cristallin (lense, lentil). (various references)

   

German

  

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

   

Pig Latin

  

enslay ofay ethay eyeay

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Anagrams: LENS OF THE EYE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-f-h-l-n-o-s-t-y"

-3 letters: ethylenes.

-4 letters: ethylene, eyeholes, eyestone, felstone, honestly, stonefly.

-5 letters: ethenes, ethynes, eyehole, eyelets, eyeshot, honesty, oneself, sheeney, stelene, tensely, thyself.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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