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Definition of Aqueous humour
1. Noun. The limpid fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and the lens.
Generic synonyms: Bodily Fluid, Body Fluid, Humor, Humour, Liquid Body Substance
Definition of Aqueous humour
1. Noun. The clear, watery fluid that fills the front of the eye between the cornea and the crystalline lens. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aqueous Humour
Literary usage of Aqueous humour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"In the special lymph apparatus the ciliary processes, the iris, the aqueous humour
and the vitreous humour are concerned. The aqueous humour. ..."
2. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1854)
"We meet with penetrating wounds of the cornea, so small and so oblique, that they
give rise to no discharge of aqueous humour, and heal by the first ..."
3. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"OF THE aqueous humour. THE aqueous humour is perfectly limpid. The use which I
have assigned to the aqueous humour explains its nature and the extent of the ..."
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