VITREOUS HUMOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vitreous humor mean? 

• VITREOUS HUMOR (noun)
  The noun VITREOUS HUMOR has 1 sense:

1. the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball

  Familiarity information: VITREOUS HUMOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VITREOUS HUMOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

vitreous body; vitreous humor; vitreous humour

Hypernyms ("vitreous humor" is a kind of...):

bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)

Meronyms (substance of "vitreous humor"):

hyaluronic acid (a viscous mucopolysaccharide found in the connective tissue space and the synovial fluid of movable joints and the humors of the eye; a cementing and protective substance)

 Context examples 

The spots are shadows of opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor or lens.

(Floaters, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

The back surface, which is in contact with the vitreous humor, of the crystalline lens in the eye.

(Facies Posterior Lentis, NCI Thesaurus)

A transparent, biconvex structure of the EYE, enclosed in a capsule and situated behind the IRIS and in front of the vitreous humor (VITREOUS BODY).

(Lens, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor or lens.

(Floaters, NCI Thesaurus)