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Sense Organs > Eye > Posterior Eye Segment > Vitreous Body
... > Body Regions > Head > Face > Eye > Posterior Eye Segment > Vitreous Body

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Vitreous Body  

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Entry terms

  • Humors, Vitreous
  • Humor, Vitreous
  • Vitreous Humor
  • Vitreous Humors

Note

  • /surg: consider also VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS DETACHMENT is available; opacities, muscae volitantes & other diseases are indexed VITREOUS BODY (IM) and EYE DISEASES (IM)

Scope note

  • The transparent, semigelatinous substance that fills the cavity behind the CRYSTALLINE LENS of the EYE and in front of the RETINA. It is contained in a thin hyaloid membrane and forms about four fifths of the optic globe.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014822

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