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crystalline lens
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crystalline lens
n.
The lens of an eye.
crystalline lens
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
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Noun1.crystalline lens - biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eyecrystalline 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 of the eye, lens
organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
eye, oculus, optic - the organ of sight
lens cortex, cortex - the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus
lens capsule - a tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye
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