CORNEA (corneae)

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Irregular inflected form: corneae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cornea mean? 

• CORNEA (noun)
  The noun CORNEA has 1 sense:

1. the transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera

  Familiarity information: CORNEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORNEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cornea" is a kind of...):

membrane; tissue layer (a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cornea"):

arcus; arcus senilis (a whitish deposit in the shape of an arc that is sometimes seen in the cornea)

Holonyms ("cornea" is a part of...):

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)

Derivation:

corneal (of or related to the cornea)

 Context examples 

Complications of intraocular lens surgery; usually refers to intraocular lens contact with cornea, can be intermittent or chronic.

(Corneal Touch, NCI Thesaurus)

Area of epithelial tissue loss from corneal surface; associated with inflammatory cells in the cornea and anterior chamber.

(Corneal Ulcer, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare squamous cell carcinoma that arises from the cornea.

(Corneal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A melanoma within the cornea of the eye.

(Corneal Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A viral or bacterial infectious process affecting the cornea.

(Corneal Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

A Kaposi sarcoma arising from the cornea.

(Corneal Kaposi Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by an area of epithelial tissue loss on the surface of the cornea.

(Corneal Ulcer, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Superficial vascularization of the cornea with infiltration of granulation tissue; an inflammatory exudate overlying the lining layer of synovial cells on the inside of a joint.

(Pannus Formation, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in the gene are associated with Rieger syndrome type 1, iridogoniodysgenesis type 2, Peters anomaly, and ring dermoid of cornea.

(PITX2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the formation of multiple tiny cysts in the epithelial layer of the cornea.

(Meesmann Corneal Dystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)