Vitreous Humour

Definition: Vitreous Humour

Vitreous Humour

Noun

1. The clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball.

Specialty Definitions: Vitreous Humour

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	The gelatineous, colorless, transparent substance filling the vitreous chamber of the eye; i. e. the space between the crystalline lens, the ciliary body and the retina. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Vitreous humour

Vitreous humour is the clear gel that fills the eyeball, lying behind the eye's lens and in front of the retina.

Floaters are small, generally harmless, defects in the vitreous humour.

Where the vitreous humour has become cloudy, vitrectomy is surgery to restore sight in which the surgeon removes cloudy vitreous humor in the eye and replaces it with a salt solution. Vitrectomy is generally not indicated unless sight has already been severely affected, as the operation itself can cause blindness.

Modern Translations: Vitreous Humour

Language		Translations for "vitreous humour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		стъкловидно тяло (vitreous body, vitreous humor). (various references)

Danish		vandet i glaslegemet, humor vitreus. (various references)

Dutch		humor vitreus, humor corporis vitrei. (various references)

French		corps vitré (vitreous body). (various references)

German		Vitrina ocularis, Humor vitreus, Humor crystallinus, Humor corporis vitrei, Glaskörperflüssigkeit. (various references)

Greek		υαλοειδές σώμα οφθαλμού. (various references)

Italian		vitrina oculi, umore vitreo, LA Humor vitreus. (various references)

Pig Latin		itreousvay umourhay

Portuguese		vitrina ocular, humor vítreo. (various references)

Romanian		umoare vitroasã (vitreous humor). (various references)

Spanish		humor vítreo, cuerpo vítreo (vitreous body). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Vitreous Humour

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