Definition of Scleras

1. Noun. (plural of sclera) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scleras

1. sclera [n] - See also: sclera

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scleras

scleral buckling
scleral buckling operation
scleral diseases
scleral ectasia
scleral resection
scleral rigidity
scleral ring
scleral roll
scleral spur
scleral staphyloma
scleral sulcus
scleral veins
scleralization
scleralizations
scleras (current term)
sclere
sclerectasia
sclerectomy
scleredema
scleredema adultorum
scleregenous
sclereid
sclereids
sclerema
sclerema adiposum
sclerema neonatorum
scleremas
sclerencephaly

Literary usage of Scleras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"Notwithstanding postmortem discoloration, there was a slight but distinct yellowness in the skin and scleras. On opening the body also the postmortem ..."

2. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1919)
"According to her statement her jaundice increased in the past month, but she did not notice the scleras to be yellow until entrance to the hospital, ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"Eyes: suffused; pupils react to light and accommodation; muscular movements good ; scleras clear: conjunctive rather pale. Ears: negative for tophi or ..."

4. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1915)
"I refer to Dr. George Strawbridge, of Philadelphia, who, when I was interne at the Wills Eye Hospital, trephined many scleras, not only for glaucoma, ..."

5. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"This is an extravasation of blood beneath the conjunctiva scleras, the meshes of the connective tissue being filled with blood-clot, and occurs as the ..."

6. The Journal of Medical Research (1901)
"The scleras were yellow, the pupils were equal, dilated, and measured 7 millimeters in diameter. There was a slight amount of pyorrhea alveolaris. ..."

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