cornea
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- noun
- /ˈkɔrnɪə/
- Specialized
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córnea
- And thankfully, modern eye surgeons can sculpt the cornea with far less invasive tools.
- damaged cornea
- cornea with opaque scar
The lubrication of the cornea is supported by blinking.
- The lubrication of the cornea is supported by blinking.
- But then afterward they can lay that that flap back down and the cornea kind of self heals.
- I lost sight because my cornea froze.
- And there's like a growth inside of my cornea of like cells that's like expanding and it's like starting to mess with my vision.
- But they're also in places like the cornea or the lining of the joints.
- So basically like the growth inside puts a gap in your cornea and like pushes it out.
- We already do this with things like corneas, heart valves, skin, obviously eggs, sperm, embryos.
- Like if you were in the present, they give you injection where you were kind of passed out, and they take your organs and take your cornea from your eyes.
- And more notably, even what happens is that your cornea becomes uneven, becomes rigged because you're not moving your eye.
Examples
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How do Ortho K lenses stay on the cornea during REM sleep at night?
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But then afterward they can lay that that flap back down and the cornea kind of self heals.
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A change in the point of fixation changes the position of the cornea.
Academic text (2005) -
The lubrication of the cornea is supported by blinking.
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The most serious injury was from her contact lenses; they smashed into her corneas.
Fiction book (1997) -
There's some damage to his corneas.
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And there's like a growth inside of my cornea of like cells that's like expanding and it's like starting to mess with my vision.
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More specifically, light entering the eye passes through the cornea, the aqueous humor, the lens, and the vitreous humor.
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Laser surgery involves peeling back a flap of the cornea's surface.
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After she scratched her cornea, she had to wear sunglasses to protect her eyes from the light.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cornea comes from the Latin corneus, meaning 'horn' or 'horn-like'. People used that image because the cornea is a tough, clear layer at the front of the eye, like a small 'horn' that protects the eye and helps focus light.