NOUN
- a circular canal in the eye that drains aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye into the anterior ciliary veins
How To Use Schlemm's canal In A Sentence
- Even then the permanent results of the iridectomy will be modified in proportion to the success secured in freeing the filtration angle and opening Schlemm's canal by thorough removal of the root of the iris. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
- Treacher Collins found, after a careful examination of eyes upon which iridectomy had been performed for glaucoma, that it is extremely rare for the initial section to pass through the pectinate ligament, while Schlemm's canal invariably escapes. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913