Anterior Chamber Definition

ăn-tîrē-ər
noun
The space between the cornea and the iris of the eye, filled with the aqueous humor and communicating through the pupil with the posterior chamber.
American Heritage Medicine

Space inside the eye between the cornea and the iris, filled with aqueous humour.

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Other Word Forms of Anterior Chamber

Noun

Singular:
anterior chamber
Plural:
anterior-chambers

Anterior Chamber Sentence Examples

  • In Scorpio the completion of the horizontal plate by oblique flaps, so as to form an actual diaphragm shutting off the cavity of the prosoma from the rest of the body, possibly gives to the organs contained in the anterior chamber a physiological advantage in respect of the supply of arterial blood and its separation from the venous blood of the mesosoma.

  • The nucleus may remain behind the iris or it may not be possible to mobilize it at all into the anterior chamber.

  • Depth of the anterior chamber at the temporal limbus was graded as a percentage fraction of peripheral corneal thickness.

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