| 单词 | choroid coat |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschoroid coat (or tunic) 1. choroid coat (or tunic): a vascular membrane lining the eyeball, between the sclerotic coat and the retina, continuous in front with the iris, and containing numerous dark pigment cells. choroid gland: a gland-like plexus of blood vessels of crescentic or annular form, imbedded in the choroid coat of the eye in osseous fishes. choroid membrane = choroid coat at coat n. 7b; see also 2 choroid muscle: the ciliary muscle of the eye. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > coats of uvea1525 sclerotica?1541 salvatrice1583 chorion1650 sclerotis1670 choroid1683 sclerotic tunic1691 sclerotic1696 goggle?1705 choroid membrane1741 sclerotic coat1741 sclerotic membrane1842 suprachoroid1871 sclera1888 1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 44 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) The choroid Coat on the Outside of the Retina. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vi. §12 The..function of the choroid membrane. 1778 Philos. Trans. 1777 (Royal Soc.) 68 91 There was..a dispute..whether the choroid coat of the eye or the retina was the immediate cause of vision. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 553/2 The so-called choroid gland in the eyes of Fishes. 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxvii. 524 A vascular organ..called the ‘choroid gland’ by the older anatomists..is of a crescentic form, and always of a deep red colour. 1881 E. B. Tylor Anthropol. 70 The black pigment lining the choroid coat at the back of the eye. choroid coat b. Physiology. A membrane or other structure investing or lining an organ of an animal body (as the arachnoid coat of the brain, the choroid coat of the eye), or forming one of the layers of which the walls of a hollow organ or vessel consist (as the coats of the stomach, of the arteries). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > outer covering hameOE curtel1398 pelliculea1400 coatc1400 pellicle?a1425 investment1646 tegument1646 cataphragm1656 integument1664 cortexa1676 vagina1683 vaginula1698 scabbard1753 sheath1805 calyx1851 ocrea1890 tunica adventitia1890 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurgie 26 Þe toþer arterie..haþ two cootis, bi cause þat oon myȝt not aȝenstonde þe strenkþe of þe spiritis. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 290 The coats of the Ventricle. 1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 84 The three coats of an artery are wounded. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xxxv. 286 The eyeball..consists of four coats or membranes. < as lemmas |
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