Anatomy
eye

eye [ ahy ]
Subclass of:
Sense Organs;
Face
Etymology:
Anglo-Saxon eage = the eye + German auge = the eye
Definitions related to eye:
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The sensory organ of vision.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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The organ of sight constituting a pair of globular organs made up of a three-layered roughly spherical structure specialized for receiving and responding to light.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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The organ of sight or vision.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(eyeball) Organ with organ cavity which is connected to the optic nerve. Examples: There are only two eyeballs, the right and the left eyeballs..Digital AnatomistUniversity of Washington, 2003
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(eyeball) Organ with organ cavity, each instance of which is connected to some optic nerve. Examples: There are only two eyeballs, the right and the left eyeballs.Foundational Model of AnatomyUniversity of Washington, 2017
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Human eye, in humans, specialized sense organ capable of receiving visual images, which are then carried to the brain. The eye is protected from mechanical injury by being enclosed in a socket, or orbit, which is made up of portions of several of the bones of the skull to form a four-sided pyramid...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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Eyeball, spheroidal structure containing sense receptors for vision, found in all vertebrates and constructed much like a simple camera. The eyeball houses the retina--an extremely metabolically active layer of nerve tissue made up of millions of light receptors (photoreceptors)--and all of the...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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