Meaning of CHOROID
| Pronunciation: | | 'kowroyd
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| | Definition: | | [n] a highly vascular membrane in the eye between the retina and the sclera |
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| | Synonyms: | | choroid coat |
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| | See Also: | | eye, membrane, oculus, optic, peeper, tissue layer | |
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| | Definition: | | \Cho"roid\, a. [gr. ?; ? chorion + ? form.] (Anat.)
resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the
ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.
-- n. The choroid coat of the eye. See {Eye}.
{Choroid plexus} (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike
processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels,
which project into the ventricles of the brain.
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