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CANAL OF SCHLEMM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does canal of Schlemm mean? 

CANAL OF SCHLEMM (noun)
  The noun CANAL OF SCHLEMM has 1 sense:

1. a circular canal in the eye that drains aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye into the anterior ciliary veinsplay

  Familiarity information: CANAL OF SCHLEMM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CANAL OF SCHLEMM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A circular canal in the eye that drains aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye into the anterior ciliary veins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

canal of Schlemm; Schlemm's canal; sinus venosus sclerae

Hypernyms ("canal of Schlemm" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)


 Context examples 


It receives the tendons of insertion of the extraocular muscles and at the corneoscleral junction contains the canal of Schlemm.

(Murine Sclera, NCI Thesaurus)



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