nervous tunic of eyeball

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• tunic — Coat or covering; one of the enveloping layers of a part, especially one of the coats of a blood vessel or other tubular structure. SEE ALSO: layer. SYN: tunica. [L. tunica] Bichat t. the tunica intima of the …   Medical dictionary

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• Equine vision — The equine eye is the largest of any land mammal. [ Soemmerring DW. A comment on the horizontal sections of eyes in man and animals. Anderson SR, Munk O, eds. Schepelern HD, transl. Copenhagen: Bogtrykkeriet Forum; 1971.] [ Knill LM, Eagleton RD …   Wikipedia

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• Uvea — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = tunica vasculosa bulbi GraySubject = GrayPage = Caption = Horizontal section of the eyeball. (Iris labeled at top, ciliary body labeled at upper right, and choroid labeled at center right.) Caption2 =… …   Wikipedia

• Artery — A vessel that carries blood that is high in oxygen content away from the heart to the farthest reaches of the body. Since blood in arteries is usually full of oxygen, the hemoglobin in the red blood cells is oxygenated. The resultant form of… …   Medical dictionary