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‖ uvea Anat.|ˈjuːvɪə|
[med.L. uvea (whence It., Sp., Pg. uvea, F. uvée), f. L. ūva uva.]
†1. The posterior coloured surface or choroid coat of the eye. Obs.
1525tr. Jerome of Brunswick's Surg. B j b/2 The vtter most [part of the coat]..is named vuea, & hath the hole of the ball of the iye. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. Interpr. Words s.v., One of the skynnes of the eye is called vuea bycause it is lyke the stone of a grape. 1615Crooke Body of Man (1631) 555 Figure 4 sheweth the Vuea or Grapy coate with a portion of the Opticke Nerue. 1676Phil. Trans. II. 746 Where he considers, why the Uvea or Choroides is black in Men, but of divers colours in Brutes. 1685[see pupil n.2 1 β]. 1728Chambers Cycl. (1738) s.v. Eye, The crystalline [humour], situate immediately under the aqueous, behind the uvea, opposite to the pupil. 1797Mrs. M. Bryan Syst. Astron. 156 The uvea commences where the choroides divides from the sclerotica, from which part..the pupil is called the iris.
2. A layer of pigmented cells forming the posterior covering of the iris; the middle coat or vascular tunic of the eye, composed of the choroid, iris, and ciliary body; the uveal tract.
1745R. James Med. Dict. s.v. Iris, The generality of Anatomists call that Membrane, which I have spoke of under the Name of Iris, the Uvea. c1760A. Monro Anat. Nerves Wks. (1781) 349 Small fibres..running along the choroid coat on the outside of the retina in their course to the uvea or iris. 1771Encycl. Brit. I. 289/2 This portion [of the coat of the eye] goes commonly by the particular name of uvea..and..has likewise got the name of iris. 1838Penny Cycl. X. 139/2 A vertical section of the globe, showing the ciliary body and processes with the uvea. |