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crystalline humor

crystalline humor is the alternative form of crystalline humour.

Meaning of crystalline humour

Noun

crystalline humour (plural crystalline humours)

  1. (obsolete) The lens of the eye.
    • And then again, the parts of the Eye are made Convex, that there might be a direction of many rayes coming from one point of the Object unto one point answerable in the bottom of the Eye; to which purpose the Crystalline Humour is of great moment, and without which the sight would be very obscure...1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 80

Questions about crystalline humor

What is crystalline humor the alternative form of?
Crystalline humor is the alternative form of crystalline humour.

Words near crystalline humor in the dictionary

  1. crystalliform
  2. crystallin
  3. Crystallina
  4. crystalline
  5. crystalline arthritis
  6. crystalline humor
  7. crystalline humour
  8. crystalline humours
  9. crystalline lens
  10. crystalline lenses
  11. crystallinely

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