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perioptic

perioptic adjective: surrounding the eyeball or the optic nerve.

Adjective

perioptic (not comparable)

  1. Surrounding the eyeball or the optic nerve

Origin of perioptic

From peri- + optic.

Questions about perioptic

What does perioptic mean?
Perioptic means surrounding the eyeball or the optic nerve.
What part of speech is perioptic?
Perioptic is an adjective.

Words near perioptic in the dictionary

  1. periople
  2. perioples
  3. perioplic
  4. periopod
  5. periopods
  6. perioptic
  7. perioral
  8. periorally
  9. periorbit
  10. periorbita
  11. periorbital

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