Vitreous body: [TA] a transparent jellylike substance filling the interior of the eyeball behind the lens of the eye; it is composed of a delicate network (vitreous stroma) enclosing in its meshes a watery fluid (vitreous humor). SYN: corpus vitreum [TA], hyaloid body, vitreous (2), vitreum.
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Vitreous body: transparent gel filling the inner portion of the eyeball between the lens and the retina.
Source: CRISP
Vitreous body: The transparent, semigelatinous substance that fills the cavity behind the crystalline lens of the EYE and in front of the RETINA. It is contained in a thin hyoid membrane and forms about four fifths of the optic globe.
Source: MeSH 2007
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