Definition of Aqueous humour

1. Noun. The limpid fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens.


Definition of Aqueous humour

1. Noun. The clear, watery fluid that fills the front of the eye between the cornea and the crystalline lens. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aqueous Humour

aqueducts
aqueductus
aqueductus cerebri
aqueductus cochleae
aqueductus cotunnii
aqueductus fallopii
aqueductus sylvii
aqueductus vestibuli
aqueity
aquent
aqueous
aqueous chambers
aqueous flare
aqueous humor
aqueous humour
aqueous influx phenomenon
aqueous phase
aqueous phases
aqueous solution
aqueous vaccine
aqueous vein
aqueously
aqueousness
aquept
aquic moisture regime
aquiclude
aquicludes
aquicultural
aquiculture

Literary usage of Aqueous humour

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"In the special lymph apparatus the ciliary processes, the iris, the aqueous humour and the vitreous humour are concerned. The aqueous humour. ..."

2. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1854)
"We meet with penetrating wounds of the cornea, so small and so oblique, that they give rise to no discharge of aqueous humour, and heal by the first ..."

3. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"OF THE aqueous humour. THE aqueous humour is perfectly limpid. The use which I have assigned to the aqueous humour explains its nature and the extent of the ..."

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