CRYSTALLINE LENS

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Meaning:

Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina

Synonyms:

crystalline lens; lens; lens of the eye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("crystalline lens" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Meronyms (parts of "crystalline lens"):

cortex; lens cortex (the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus)

lens capsule (a tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye)

Holonyms ("crystalline lens" is a part of...):

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)