Definition of crystalline lens Crystalline lens
crys•tal•line lens
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What does crystalline lens mean?
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| crystalline lens - biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina | ||
| lens, lens of the eye | ||
| organ wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard | ||
| oculus, optic, eye a small hole or loop (as in a needle); "the thread wouldn't go through the eye" | ||
| lens cortex, cortex the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus | ||
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crystalline lens
Transparent, biconvex natural lens inside the eye that, along with the cornea, refracts light to be focused on the retina, and whose shape can be modified by muscles to adapt the focal distance.
