NOUN
- the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball
How To Use vitreous humor In A Sentence
- What birds have instead is a strange structure inside their eye called the pecten oculi, which looks kind of like an old steam radiator dangling into the vitreous humor, which seems to be a metabolic specialization to secrete oxygen and nutrients into the vitreous to supply by diffusion the retina. More creationist misconceptions about the eye - The Panda's Thumb
- If the retina is normally attached, the insect-like movements are harmless floaters in the vitreous humor of the eye.
- There were further tests on the blood, bile and vitreous humor. AMAGANSETT
- Hyaluronic acid is a component of synovial fluid, and is found in the vitreous humor of the eye, the synovia of joints, and in subcutaneous tissue where it functions is as a cementing agent. Do my lips look plump?
- There were further tests on the blood, bile and vitreous humor. AMAGANSETT
- What birds have instead is a strange structure inside their eye called the pecten oculi, which looks kind of like an old steam radiator dangling into the vitreous humor, which seems to be a metabolic specialization to secrete oxygen and nutrients into the vitreous to supply by diffusion the retina. More creationist misconceptions about the eye - The Panda's Thumb
- There were further tests on the blood, bile and vitreous humor. AMAGANSETT
- But this eye is by no means as developed as the organ of vision, for instance, of the water salamander (the triton) or of the so-called axolotl, for it exists only in a kind of embryonic development, and contains neither a vitreous humor nor a lens for the refraction of the rays of light. Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
- This meaning of the word humor as a bodily fluid is now preserved in the aqueous and vitreous humors of the eyeball. No Uncertain Terms
- The vitreous humor is between the back of the lens and the retina.