HyperDic: crystalline_lens

English > 1 sense of the expression crystalline lens:
NOUNbodycrystalline lens, lens, lens of the eyebiconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye
English > crystalline lens: 1 sense > noun 1, body
Meaningbiconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina.
Synonymslens, lens of the eye
Part ofeye, oculus, opticThe organ of sight
Partslens capsuleA tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye
lens cortex, cortexThe tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus
BroaderorganA fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
Spanishcristalino, lente
Catalancristal·lí

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