scleral
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- subscleral adjective
Etymology
Origin of scleral
Example Sentences
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Keratopigmentation is not to be confused with scleral tattooing, which involves tattooing the white part of the eye and carries a risk for infection and vision loss.
From Salon • May 4, 2025
To conclude, the inference of nocturnality in dinosaurs from scleral ring and orbit morphology is sound.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2011
Swimmers who need correction for reasons other than myopia usually wear the bigger scleral lens because it is harder to dislodge under water.
From Time Magazine Archive
Early plastic lenses were also of the big scleral type, had to float on a bath of special wetting fluid, and could be worn only four to five hours at a stretch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reasons for believing that of the better known procedures simple iridectomy is the least effective, while those interventions producing a large, thin, scleral filtration-cicatrix are the most valuable.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Nance, Willis O.
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