| 单词 | vitreous humour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvitreous humour (or body) b. vitreous humour (or body), the transparent gelatinous substance occupying the posterior and larger part of the eyeball. †vitreous tunicle (see quot. 1704). 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 the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > humours of > film separating vitreous tunicle1663 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. i. 96 We have sometimes..speedily frozen Eyes, and thereby have turn'd the Vitreous humor into very numerous and Diaphanous Films. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 747 As to the Vitreous humor, he judges it to be of that nature, that being once lost, it can never be repaired. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Vitrious Tunicle, a thin Film, or Coat, which is said to separate the Glassie Humour from the Chrystalline. 1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xxix. 237 The Vitreous Humour..being one of the most transparent Things that we know of in the World. 1793 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 175 Its elasticity will assist the cellular texture of the vitreous humour..in restoring the indolent form. 1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 559 The Vitreous Body is a soft, perfectly transparent, tremulous mass, occupying the three posterior fourths of the cavity of the ball of the eye. 1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (1878) iii. ii. 398 The rays of light traverse in succession the cornea, the aqueous humour, the lens and the vitreous humour. < as lemmas |
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