The choroid is a highly vascularised, darkly pigmented layer found in between the retina and the sclera of the eye.
Source: tatoeba (9408450)
Sclera
//ˈsklɛəɹə//
Synonyms for "sclera" (18 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Related words (9)
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37 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σφενδόνη noun (white of the eye)
Arabic
2 entries- بَيَاض اَلْعَيْن noun (white of the eye)
- مُقْلَة noun (white of the eye)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鞏膜 /巩膜 noun (white of the eye)
Czech
1 entries- bělima noun (white of the eye)
Dutch
2 entries- oogwit noun (white of the eye)
- sclera noun (white of the eye)
Esperanto
1 entries- sklero noun (white of the eye)
Finnish
1 entries- silmänvalkuainen noun (white of the eye)
German
2 entries- Lederhaut noun (white of the eye)
- Sklera noun (white of the eye)
Greek
1 entries- σκληρός χιτώνας noun (white of the eye)
Hebrew
1 entries- לֹבֶן הָעַיִן noun (white of the eye)
Irish
2 entries- gealacán noun (white of the eye)
- gealacán súile noun (white of the eye)
Italian
1 entries- sclera noun (white of the eye)
Latvian
2 entries- acs baltums noun (white of the eye)
- sklēra noun (white of the eye)
Macedonian
1 entries- белка noun (white of the eye)
Māori
1 entries- teatea noun (white of the eye)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- reqe noun (white of the eye)
- spîka çav noun (white of the eye)
Persian
2 entries- سَفِیدیِ چَشم noun (white of the eye)
- صُلبِیَّه noun (white of the eye)
Polish
2 entries- białkówka noun (white of the eye)
- twardówka noun (white of the eye)
Portuguese
1 entries- esclera noun (white of the eye)
Russian
1 entries- скле́ра noun (white of the eye)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- beonjača noun (white of the eye)
Spanish
2 entries- esclera noun (white of the eye)
- esclerótica noun (white of the eye)
Swedish
2 entries- sklera noun (white of the eye)
- ögonvita noun (white of the eye)
Turkish
3 entries- göz akı noun (white of the eye)
- sert kat noun (white of the eye)
- sert tabaka noun (white of the eye)
Ukrainian
1 entries- біло́к noun (white of the eye)
Sample sentences
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The eyes may remain open for such long periods of time that the conjunctiva and sclera may become quite dry and ulcerate.
Source: tatoeba (11902512)
She'd been back a week and it was clear that college-level track was kicking her ass, the sclera in her normally wide manga-eyes were shot through with blood vessels.
Source: wiktionary
Such pressures explain why humans are peculiar in having our rather small irises set against a white background—the sclera—in our eyes. Anyone watching us can infer where we are looking or whom we are looking at.
Source: wiktionary
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