lens of the eye

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lens of the eye - biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retinacrystalline lens, lensorgan - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular functioneye, oculus, optic - the organ of sightlens cortex, cortex - the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleuslens capsule - a tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye