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ALBUGINEA

Dictionary entry overview: What does albuginea mean?

• ALBUGINEA (noun)
The noun ALBUGINEA has 1 sense:

1. whitish tunic

Familiarity information: ALBUGINEA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ALBUGINEA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Whitish tunic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("albuginea" is a kind of...):

adventitia; tunic; tunica (an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "albuginea"):

sclera; sclerotic coat (whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball)

tunica albuginea testes (whitish cover of the testicle)

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