Sclera

Definition: Sclera

Sclera

Noun

1. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball.

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

Medicine

Health

Medicine

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

Synonym: Sclera

Crosswords: Sclera

Danish (sclera), Dutch (sclera), Italian (sclera).

Books

• External Diseases: Cornea, Conjunctiva, Sclera, Eyelids, Lacrimal System (reference)

• Sclera & Systemic Disorders (reference)

• The Sclera (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Health

Sclera - Outer coat of the eyeball. (references)

The cornea shares this protective task with the eyelids, the eye socket, tears, and the sclera, or white part of the eye. (references)

During a vitrectomy, the doctor makes a tiny incision in the sclera (white of the eye). Next, a small instrument is placed into the eye to remove the vitreous. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Danish

sclera (cornea opaca, sclerotic coat). (various references)

Dutch

sclera (cornea opaca). (various references)

French

sclérotique (sclerotic). (various references)

German

Lederhaut (corium), Sklera (sclerotic coat). (various references)

Greek 

σκληρός χιτώνας(οφθαλμού), επεπιπεφυκώς. (various references)

Italian

sclera (sclerotic coat). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鞏膜 , 強膜 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうまく (pleura). (various references)

Manx

sclearey. (various references)

Pig Latin

erasclay

Portuguese

esclerótica (sclerotic coat), esclerótica. (various references)

Romanian

scleroticã (sclerotic). (various references)

Russian 

склера. (various references)

Spanish

esclerotica, esclerótico (sclerotic). (various references)

Thai

เยื่อหุ้มลูกตาสีขาว (ยกเว้นบริเว�"กระจกตา cornea). (various references)

Turkish

sklera (sclerotic), gözakı (sclerotic, white of the eye). (various references)

Ukranian 

склера (sclerotic). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sclera": sclerae, scleral, scleras. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sclera" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sacler, scalera, scelera, sceran, Sclar, scle, scler, sclerad, sclerae, scleral, sclerea, Sclosa, scoler, skera, Skrela, sleri. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carles, clears, lacers, scaler.

-1 letter: acres, alecs, arles, cares, carle, carls, carse, clear, earls, escar, lacer, laces, lares, laser, lears, races, rales, reals, scale, scare, serac, seral.

-2 letters: aces, acre, alec, ales, arcs, ares, arse, care, carl, cars, case, cels, earl, ears, eras, lace, lacs, lars, lase, lear, leas, race, rale, rase, real, recs, sale, scar, seal, sear, sera.

-3 letters: ace, ale, als, arc, are, ars, car, cel, ear, els, era, ers, lac, lar, las, lea, ras, rec, res, sac, sae, sal, sea, sec, sel, ser.

-4 letters: ae, al, ar, as, el, er, es, la, re.

+1 letter: calkers, callers, carcels, carless, carpels, carrels, cartels, carvels, cellars, cereals, clarets, claries, claroes, clasher, clasper, classer, clavers, clawers, coalers, cradles, crestal, eclairs, escolar, lackers, lancers, larches, marcels, oracles, parcels, placers, recalls, reclasp, recoals, recusal, relaces, rescale, scalare, scalers, scalier, scalper, scarlet, sclerae, scleral, scleras, secular, slacker, solacer.

+2 letters: acerolas, alfresco, arbuscle, articles, auricles, becrawls, berascal, cacklers, caesural, cajolers, calderas, calibers, calibres, calipers, calories, caloyers, candlers, caramels, caravels, careless, carioles, carlines, carolers, carousel, carrells, caulkers, cavilers, centrals, ceramals, cervelas, charleys, charlies, charnels, choleras, chorales, clabbers, clackers, claimers, clambers, clammers, clampers, clangers, clappers, claquers, clashers, claspers, classers, classier, clatters, claviers, cleaners, cleanser, clearers, clearest, cleavers, coarsely, coracles, crackles, cradlers, crankles, crawlers, declares, decrials, earlocks, escarole, escolars, glaciers, glancers, graciles, grackles, hacklers, lacquers, lacrosse, lanciers, leachers, locaters, lucarnes, miracles, percales, radicels, radicles, recitals, reclaims, reclames, reclasps, recleans, recusals, replaces, replicas, rescaled, rescales, sacredly, scalares, scalpers, scarcely, scarless, scarlets, sceptral, sclaffer, scleroma, scrabble, scramble, scrannel, scrapple, scrawled, scrawler, sectoral, seculars, shackler, slackers, solacers, spectral, specular, spiracle, sterical, tacklers, trachles, treacles, visceral.

+3 letters: acervulus, acrolects, acroleins, acrylates, albacores, albicores, amelcorns, ancestral, arbuscles, arsenical, bachelors, balancers, barbicels, barleducs, barnacles, beclamors, berascals, blanchers, bleachers, bracelets, bracioles, bractlets, brocatels, brucellas, cabrioles, calendars, calenders, callipers, calorizes, calvaries, calypters, cameleers, canallers, cancelers, caprioles, caracoles, carollers, caroluses, carousels, carrioles, carrousel, cartelise, caruncles, casserole, cavaleros, cavaliers, cavalries, cavillers, celeriacs, cellarers, cellarets, censorial, cerebrals, ceruleans, cervelats, chandlers, charmless, chelators, chlorates, cisternal, clamorers, claqueurs, clarences, clarifies, clarinets, clarities, claymores, claywares, cleansers, clearings, clearness, clepsydra, clericals, colanders, coleaders, collarets, conelrads, corelates, cornmeals, coveralls, cracknels, crawliest, crevalles, crossable, crushable, cyclecars, cymbalers, declarers, decretals, eristical, escalader, escalator, escaroles, falconers, fireclays, graceless, housecarl, irascible, lacerates, lacertids, laceworks, lacrosses, larceners, larcenies, larcenist, larcenous, launchers, laverocks, leadscrew, loricates, lowercase, mackerels, millraces, overcalls, overscale, parlances, particles, pectorals, peculiars, placaters, praelects, precleans, preclears, prelacies, preplaces, raclettes, realistic, recallers, reclasped, reliances, relocates, replacers, replicase, rescaling, rescuable, retackles, rocailles, sacrilege, scalloper, sclaffers, scleromas, sclerotia, scrabbled, scrabbler, scrabbles, scrambled, scrambler, scrambles, scrannels, scrapples, scrawlers, scrawlier, screwball, scrutable, scutellar, sectorial, secularly, shacklers, simulacre, specialer, spherical, spiracles, subcellar, tailraces, traceless, trackless, trauchles, trochleas, ulcerates, vernacles, verticals, vesicular.

+4 letters: acclaimers, accursedly, afterclaps, alacrities, allosteric, altercates, anchorless, applecarts, archangels, arecolines, arsenicals, ascribable, aspherical, backlasher, backslider, barcaroles, berascaled, blackeners, blockaders, bracteoles, branchless, branchlets, bricolages, broadscale, caballeros, cablegrams, cabriolets, cajoleries, calamaries, calcareous, calentures, calibrates, campestral, cancellers, caramelise, carbazoles, carbonless, carbuncles, carelessly, carnelians, carpoolers, carrousels, cartelised, cartelises, cartelizes, cartilages, cartwheels, casseroles, catalogers, catalyzers, caterwauls, cathedrals, celebrants, celebrates, cellarages, censurable, centralest, centralise, centralism, centralist, cervelases, channelers, charladies, charlottes, cheerleads, chevaliers, chivalries, chloracnes, chloralose, chlordanes, chlorellas, circulates, clamberers, clarifiers, classifier, clathrates, clatterers, clavierist, clearances, clearstory, clearwings, clepsydrae, clepsydras, collarless, concealers, conferrals, coralbells, corallines, cornelians, cornflakes, correlates, crackliest, cradlesong, cranesbill, craterlets, crawlspace, creaseless, crystalize, curlpapers, curtailers, curtalaxes, curtilages, curveballs, decaliters, declaimers, declarants, descramble, disclaimer, dreadlocks, escadrille, escaladers, escalators, escalatory, exclaimers, falconries, fireplaces, flackeries, flagrances, forecastle, fortalices, freelances, gerfalcons, graticules, housecarls, hysterical, incurables, interclass, interlaces, kiloparsec, lachrymose, lackluster, lacquerers, lacustrine, landscaper, larcenists, larvicides, latecomers, laticifers, leadscrews, linecaster, literacies, lowercased, lowercases, lubricates, luciferase, macroscale, mercurials, microscale, narcolepsy, normalcies, nucleators, olecranons, operculars, orchestral, orthoclase, overclaims, overcleans, overclears, overscaled, parbuckles, parfleches, peculators, pelycosaur, percalines, percolates, porcelains, precancels, radicalise, ramshackle, rebalances, rechannels, recitalist, reclasping, reclassify, reclosable, rectangles, reescalate, relacquers, relaunches, relevances, relocatees, reluctates, replicases, replicates, resectable, revictuals, sacerdotal, sacrileges, salesclerk, saltcellar, sarcolemma, saucerlike, scallopers, schmalzier, scleromata, sclerotial, scrabblers, scrabblier, scragglier, scramblers, scrawliest, screenable, screenland, screenplay, screwballs, scrubbable, searchable, searchless, secularise, secularism, secularist, secularity, secularize, sepulchral, silverback, simulacres, socializer, spectrally, specularly, speculator, sterically, subcellars, subcentral, subnuclear, superclass, superclean, superflack, superscale, telecaster, testicular, tolerances, trabeculas, tracheoles, triticales, trochlears, unclearest, underclass, unscramble, varicellas, versicular, victualers, viscerally, vocalizers, workplaces.

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