LENS OF THE EYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lens of the eye mean? 

• LENS OF THE EYE (noun)
  The noun LENS OF THE EYE has 1 sense:

1. biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina

  Familiarity information: LENS OF THE EYE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENS OF THE EYE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

crystalline lens; lens; lens of the eye

Hypernyms ("lens of the eye" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Meronyms (parts of "lens of the eye"):

cortex; lens cortex (the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus)

lens capsule (a tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye)

Holonyms ("lens of the eye" is a part of...):

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)

 Context examples 

A transparent, elastic membrane that encloses the lens of the eye.

(Lens Capsule, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition in which the lens of the eye becomes cloudy.

(Cataract, NCI Dictionary)

The anterior surface of the lens of the eye.

(Anterior Surface of the Lens, NCI Thesaurus)