单词 | glassy humour |
释义 | > as lemmasglassy humour b. glassy humour (of the eye): now usually called the vitreous adj. humour (see quot. 1728). glassy membrane (see quot. 1885). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > humours of humoura1398 glassy humour?1541 aqueous humour1643 vitreous humour (or body)1663 hydatoid1706 vitreous1869 eye-water1874 aqueous1879 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Eiijv Ye glasy humour that susteyneth & compryseth all the hyndre party of ye humour crystallyne. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 284 The eies of a horsse..see perfectly in the night, yet their colour varieth as it doth in men, according to the caprine and glazie humor. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island v. xxx. 54 (note) The third..is called the glassie humour. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 178 Resembling the watry or glassie humours of the eye. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Humour The Vitrious, or Glassy Humour, fills the posterior Part of the Eye; and is denominated from its Resemblance of melted Glass. 1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Glassy membrane, a hyaline membrane immediately outside the outer root-sheath of the hair-follicle. < as lemmas |
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