What contacts contact

Usage examples of cornea.

When you do that, you remover debris, stimulate small glands to secrete oil for a tear film that covers the eyes like Saran Wrap, and simulate your own tears, which are antibacterial and hydrate the cornea.

Major - de Coverley had returned from Rome with an injured cornea after renting two apartments there for the officers and enlisted men to use on their rest leaves.

Holmes also reports a case of enormous congenital exophthalmos, in which the right eye protruded from the orbit and was no longer covered by the cornea.

Students disputed whether the conjunctiva extended over the cornea or not, and worried themselves over Gaultier de Claubry's stratified layers of the skin, or Breschet's blennogenous and chromatogenous organs.

The inky streaks across her corneas were, Roberta knew, twin legacies of the disastrous chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, many years ago, created when the other woman had squinted to see her way through the clouds of poisonous gas.

His corneas were healthy, but he was born with atrophied optic nerves.

It was close enough so Richie could see the yellowing corneas of its eyes, could smell sweet rotten meat on its breath.

The corneas were now yellow, ancient, threaded with bleary stitches of red.

His eyes were a weird gray-green color, and the corneas seemed to float on a watery viscous substance.

They are suspicious of Doina Cornea and Laszlo Tokes—he, be cause he is Hungarian.

Through the rubbery grayness of the Spline's cornea salmon-pink light swept into the eyeball like a false dawn, dwarfing the yellow glow of Jasoft's light globe, and causing his slender, suspended form to cast a blurred shadow on the purple-veined retina behind him.

Light entering the eye passes through the cornea and aqueous humor, through the opening of the pupil, then through the lens and vitreous humor to the retina.

The aqueous humor that circulated between his cornea and lens was freezing repeatedly.

Their eyes were strangely large, and the black spot of the pupil in their white corneas created an unnatural effect.

I don't care how tightly you managed to fit the new ones, microscopic dirt and grit can always slip between a contact lens and the cornea.