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Conjunctiva

noun

(pl. conjunctivae, conjunctivas)

A transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid.

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"Conjunctiva" Quotes from Famous Books

... contamination, the secretions become vitiated, and a general disturbance of the conditions of life is produced. The action of the liver becoming deranged, its eliminative office is imperfectly discharged, and thus sallowness of the face and a bilious-tinged conjunctiva are produced. A coated tongue, foul mouth, loss of appetite, and other dyspeptic manifestations, accompany the general disorder of the digestive organs that prevails. The accumulation existing in the colon leads to a sense of distention ...

— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

... of a whitish colour, sometimes inclining to brown. Its thickness is from a half to two-thirds of a line, and its length has sometimes reached to ten or twelve feet. Small specimens have been found beneath the tunica conjunctiva of the eye; and one species of the same genus of Nematoidea infests the cavity of the ...

— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent

Words linked to "Conjunctiva" : optic, oculus, mucous membrane, mucosa, palpebra, pterygium, pinguecula, lid, eye, eyelid