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Definition of Arcus
1. Noun. A whitish deposit in the shape of an arc that is sometimes seen in the cornea.
Definition of Arcus
1. Noun. (medicine) A white band of cholesterol that forms at the edge of the cornea ¹
2. Noun. (meteorology) A low, horizontal cloud typically forming at the leading edge of thunderstorm outflow ¹
3. Noun. (entomology) An elastic band around the base of the arolium, a pad at the end of the leg of certain insects ¹
4. Noun. (palynology plural sometimes arci) An arc-shaped band of thickened sexine extending between two apertures on a pollen grain or spore ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arcus
1. an arch-shaped cloud [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Arcus
1. Synonym: arch. Origin: L. A bow (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arcus
Literary usage of Arcus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1854)
"This arcus senilis, as it is termed, occurs without any pr inflammation, ... Mr.
Canton has in no instance found arcus senilis, when well developed, ..."
2. A Text book of ophthalmology by John Westley Wright (1896)
"As a general thing arcus senilis is an affection of age, but it is occasionally met
... Wounds on the arcus senilis heal as readily as on the clear cornea. ..."
3. A Text Book of Anatomy, and Guide in Dissections: For the Use of Students of by Washington R. Handy (1854)
"The arcus profundus is one of the terminating branches of the radial; it extends
from the ... 236, A represents the arcus superficialis. a Ulnar artery. ..."
4. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1902)
"A true arcus is always separated from the adjacent sclera by a thin stripe of
clear cornea. Occasionally a genuine example of this affection appears to have ..."
5. Diseases and Injuries of the Eye: Their Medical and Surgical Treatment by George Lawson (1885)
"I have frequently seen a dense arcus surrounding the cornea in patients over
eighty years of age, and with no evidence of cardiac or arterial disease; ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1853)
"... arcus Senilis, as a Diagnostic Symptom of fatty Degeneration of the Heart.
By EB HASKINS, MD, of Clarksville, Tenn. IN the London Lancet, for May 11, ..."
7. A Treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Lawrence (1854)
"A puncture or incision in the arcus senilis heals just as well as in any other
... In the dissection of eyes affected with arcus senilis, a corresponding ..."
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