| 单词 | choroid gland |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschoroid gland 1. choroid coat (or tunic): a vascular membrane lining the eyeball, between the sclerotic coat and the retina, continuous in front with the iris, and containing numerous dark pigment cells. choroid gland: a gland-like plexus of blood vessels of crescentic or annular form, imbedded in the choroid coat of the eye in osseous fishes. choroid membrane = choroid coat at coat n. 7b; see also 2 choroid muscle: the ciliary muscle of the eye. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > coats of uvea1525 sclerotica?1541 salvatrice1583 chorion1650 sclerotis1670 choroid1683 sclerotic tunic1691 sclerotic1696 goggle?1705 choroid membrane1741 sclerotic coat1741 sclerotic membrane1842 suprachoroid1871 sclera1888 1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 44 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) The choroid Coat on the Outside of the Retina. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. §12 The..function of the choroid membrane. 1778 Philos. Trans. 1777 (Royal Soc.) 68 91 There was..a dispute..whether the choroid coat of the eye or the retina was the immediate cause of vision. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 553/2 The so-called choroid gland in the eyes of Fishes. 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxvii. 524 A vascular organ..called the ‘choroid gland’ by the older anatomists..is of a crescentic form, and always of a deep red colour. 1881 E. B. Tylor Anthropol. 70 The black pigment lining the choroid coat at the back of the eye. < as lemmas |
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