Crystalline lens Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina
    lens; lens of the eye.

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  1. (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.
Definitions
  1. . (Anat.) See Eye.
  2. (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.

Webster 1913