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Optic layer including the iris
Answer for the clue "Optic layer including the iris ", 4 letters:
uvea
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n. the part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid
Usage examples of uvea.
Uvea and the Loyalty Islands had long been French possessions, Uea had long been recognized as a Polynesian outlier, and the resemblance of the names Uvea and Uea is eye-catching, one need go no farther than the teachings of early French missionaries for a foundation for these late traditions.
Burrows, an American anthropologist, during the thirties of the present century, accepted as authentic history a story that in prehistoric times some male Uveans set out for and settled Uea in the Loyalty Islands, about 1,000 miles to the south-west of Uvea.