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Definition of Scleral
1. sclera [adj] - See also: sclera
Medical Definition of Scleral
1. Relating to the sclera. Synonym: sclerotic. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scleral
Literary usage of Scleral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Immediately outside the filtration angle is a projecting rim of scleral tissue
which appears in a meridional section as a small triangular area, ..."
2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1896)
"CONCERNING THE REPAIR OF CORNEO-scleral WOUNDS, WITH PROLAPSE OF THE IRIS. ...
occurring at the corneo-scleral junction, or its immediate neighborhood, ..."
3. Lectures on the Human Eye in Its Normal and Pathological Conditions by Adolf Alt (1880)
"Partial scleral staphyloma is of frequent occurrence, ... This form of staphyloma
lies in the beginning just at the corneo-scleral margin. ..."
4. A Manual of the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Diseases of the Eye by Edward Jackson (1907)
"Enlargement of the scleral Veins.—Enlargement of the scleral veins (Fig. ...
The principal trunks of these vessels emerge from the scleral, ..."
5. Handbook of ophthalmology by C. Schweigger (1878)
"The inflammation of the epi- scleral and scleral tissue is characterized bv
circumscribed hyper- semia and swelling of a region generally some millimetres ..."
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