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ALBUGINEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does albuginea mean?
• ALBUGINEA (noun)
The noun ALBUGINEA has 1 sense:
1. whitish tunic
Familiarity information: ALBUGINEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Whitish tunic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("albuginea" is a kind of...):
adventitia; tunic; tunica (an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "albuginea"):
sclera; sclerotic coat (the whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball)
tunica albuginea testes (whitish cover of the testicle)
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