vitreous humor
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈvɪtriəs ˈhjuːmər/
- Specialized
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humor vítreo
- The surgeon carefully removed part of the vitreous humor during the eye operation to repair the retina.
- vitreous humor of the eye
Examples
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The sentence that came after that chilled her: "Decedent's stomach was empty at the time of death; time of death at discovery is placed between 24 and 36 hours, due to morbidity and the presence of potassium in the vitreous humor."
Fiction book (1996) -
You may need to tease the vitreous humor gently away from the lining of the eye.
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Let the vitreous humor and any associated structure...
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MYOC is additionally secreted into the vitreous humor for undetermined reasons.
Academic text (2018) -
More specifically, light entering the eye passes through the cornea, the aqueous humor, the lens, and the vitreous humor.
Academic text (2003) -
The fluids can become stiffer, what we call a vitreous humor, and start to harden, shift, pull away and you start to see floaters.
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And do you know the vitreous humor... and the pancreas are two parts of the body that can't assimilate ascorbic acid?
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Cytological studies of aqueous and vitreous humor in acute anterior uveitis have revealed the presence of various subsets of T and B cells.
Academic text (1991) -
The vitreous humor is a clear, gel-like substance that fills the space between the lens and the retina in the eyeball.
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When the doctor examined my eye, she explained how the vitreous humor helps maintain its shape.
Synonyms
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8.6
A clear jelly that fills the space between the lens and the back of the eye
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is partly compositional: 'vitreous' (glass- or glass-like) plus 'humor' (an old word for bodily fluid) yields the notion of a glassy or clear bodily fluid, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer a general meaning. However, the term is medical/technical and the specific anatomical sense (a gel filling the space between lens and retina) and gel-like consistency are not fully predictable from the parts alone, so it is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The name vitreous humor may come from old words for 'glass' and 'liquid', because vitreous means 'glass-like' and humor means 'liquid'. This creates a simple image of a clear, jelly-like liquid inside the eye, so the name now means the clear gel between the lens and the back of the eye.