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lens cortex

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Noun1.lens cortex - the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus
animal tissue - the tissue in the bodies of animals
crystalline lens, lens of the eye, lens - biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina


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There was a probe to what kind of alterations in the mind, the neurons, the lens cortex and the services of the encephalon when it came into contact with these traumatic and sometimes fantastical situations, and what could be done with that information on their oddment.
A cortical cataract, which forms in the outer lens cortex, gradually extends its spokes from the outside of the lens to the center.
Studies have shown that light rays entering the eye from the side are focused and intensified at the nasal limbus, where pterygia are most common, and the nasal lens cortex, the most likely site for cortical cataracts (1,2).
 
 
 
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