sclera

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).

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Noun

sclera (plural scleras or sclerae or scleræ)

  1. (anatomy) The white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea.
    Synonyms: sclerotic, sclerotic coat
    • 2007, Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao:
      She'd been back a week and it was clear that college-level track was kicking her ass, the sclera in her normally wide manga-eyes were shot through with blood vessels.
    • 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 13, in The Secret of Our Success , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
      Such pressures explain why humans are peculiar in having our rather small irises set against a white background—the sclera—in our eyes. Anyone watching us can infer where we are looking or whom we are looking at.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsklɛ.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɛra
  • Hyphenation: sclè‧ra

Etymology 1

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Noun

sclera f (plural sclere)

  1. (anatomy) sclera
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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sclera

  1. inflection of sclerare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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