The choroid is a highly vascularised, darkly pigmented layer found in between the retina and the sclera of the eye.
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Choroid
//ˈkɔː.ɹɔɪd//
Synonyms for "choroid" (1 found)
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17 translations across 16 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- coroide noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 脈絡膜 /脉络膜 noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Esperanto
1 entries- koroido noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Finnish
1 entries- suonikalvo noun (vascular layer of the eye)
French
1 entries- choroïde noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Galician
1 entries- coroide noun (vascular layer of the eye)
German
1 entries- Aderhaut noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Icelandic
2 entries- æða noun (vascular layer of the eye)
- æðahimna noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Italian
1 entries- coroide noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Latvian
1 entries- dzīslene noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- årehinne noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Persian
1 entries- مشیمیه noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Polish
1 entries- naczyniówka noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- sudovnjača noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Spanish
1 entries- coroides noun (vascular layer of the eye)
Swedish
1 entries- åderhinna noun (vascular layer of the eye)
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The choroid is darkly pigmented to fully absorb the light passing through the retina, so as to avoid internal reflection which would lead to blurry vision.
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