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The white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sclerotic, sclerotic coat
Antonyms: none provided
the whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sclerotic coat
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: albuginea
Borrowed from New Latin sclera, from Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
مُقْلَة
(muqla)
— white of the eye
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Arabic:
بَيَاض اَلْعَيْن
(bayāḍ al-ʕayn)
— white of the eye
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Chinese Mandarin:
鞏膜 /巩膜
(gǒngmó)
— white of the eye
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Choctaw:
nishkin i̱ tohbi
— white of the eye
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Czech:
bělima
— white of the eye
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Dutch:
oogwit
— white of the eye
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Dutch:
sclera
— white of the eye
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Esperanto:
sklero
— white of the eye
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Finnish:
silmänvalkuainen
— white of the eye
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German:
Lederhaut
— white of the eye
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German:
Sklera
— white of the eye
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Greek:
σκληρός χιτώνας
(sklirós chitónas)
— white of the eye
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Ancient Greek:
σφενδόνη
(sphendónē)
— white of the eye
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Hebrew:
לֹבֶן הָעַיִן
— white of the eye
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Irish:
gealacán
— white of the eye
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Irish:
gealacán súile
— white of the eye
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Italian:
sclera
— white of the eye
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Northern Kurdish:
reqe
— white of the eye
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Northern Kurdish:
spîka çav
— white of the eye
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Latvian:
sklēra
— white of the eye
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Latvian:
acs baltums
— white of the eye
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Macedonian:
белка
(belka)
— white of the eye
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Māori:
teatea
— white of the eye
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Persian:
صُلبِیَّه
(sulbiyya)
— white of the eye
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Persian:
سَفِیدیِ چَشم
— white of the eye
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Polish:
twardówka
— white of the eye
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Polish:
białkówka
— white of the eye
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Portuguese:
esclera
— white of the eye
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Russian:
скле́ра
(skléra)
— white of the eye
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Serbo-Croatian:
beonjača
— white of the eye
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Spanish:
esclera
— white of the eye
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Spanish:
esclerótica
— white of the eye
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Swedish:
sklera
— white of the eye
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Swedish:
ögonvita
— white of the eye
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Turkish:
göz akı
— white of the eye
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Turkish:
sert kat
— white of the eye
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Turkish:
sert tabaka
— white of the eye
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Ukrainian:
біло́к
(bilók)
— white of the eye
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Welsh:
sglera
— white of the eye
