Cornea Definition

kôrnē-ə
corneas
noun
The transparent tissue over the front of the eyeball, covering the iris and pupil.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cornea

Noun

Singular:
cornea
Plural:
corneas

Origin of Cornea

  • Medieval Latin cornea (tēla) horny (tissue) from Latin corneus horny from cornū horn ker-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin cornea tela (“horny tissue”), from cornu (“horn”)

    From Wiktionary

Cornea Sentence Examples

  • The eye is always a closed vesicle, and the internal cornea is extensive.

  • One result of this among the Vertebrata is that the eyeball is pink in colour, since the cornea, iris and retina being transparent, the red blood contained in the capillaries is unmasked by the absence of pigmentary material.

  • Early names for it are Lac argenti and Luna cornea, the first referring to its form when freshly precipitated, the latter to its appearance after fusion.

  • In most cases this cornea is divided into lenticular facets corresponding to the underlying ommatidia.

  • Light is focused by the cornea and lens at the retina.

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