cornea

See also: córnea and corneá

English

Illustration showing parts of the human eye, including the cornea.

Etymology

From Latin cornea tela (“horny tissue”), from cornu (“horn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)ni.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)niə

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Noun

cornea (plural corneas or corneae or (archaic) corneæ)

2. (anatomy) The transparent layer making up the outermost front part of the eye, covering the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.
   • 1885, Arthur Bolles Lee, chapter XI, in The Microtomist’s Vade‐Mecum, P. Blakiston, Son & Co, page 93:

     Or instead of treating them with the developing solution, the corneæ may be removed to a warm, concentrated solution of tartaric acid and remain there at the temperature of an incubating stove until the gold is fully reduced.

   • 1969, P. P. H. Alkemade, Dysgenesis Mesodermalis of the Iris and the Cornea: A Study of Rieger’s Syndrome and Peter’s Anomaly, page 119:

     In the lateral view (fig. 26) the corneae seemed very flat, their convexity not exceeding that of the bulbi (cornea plana?);

   • 1981, R. Sundmacher, D. Neumann-Haefelin, A. Mattes, K. Cantell, “Connatal Monosymptomatic Corneal Endotheliitis by Cytomegalovirus”, in Herpetic Eye Diseases, J.F. Bergmann Verlag, →ISBN, page 501:

     The corneae were swollen without major infiltrates similar to longstanding disciform edema.

   • 1983, A. Loffredo, G. Cennamo, A. De Lellis, A. Sammartino, A. Del Prete, “Echographic Pattern Evaluation of Eyes with Choroid Melanoma for Corneal Graft Utilization”, in Jeffrey S. Hillman, Malcolm M. Le May, editors, Ophthalmic Ultrasonography: Proceedings of the 9th SIDUO Congress, Leeds, U.K. July 20-23, 1982, Dr W. Junk Publishers, Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, →ISBN, page 43:

     It is well known that in clinical practice the corneae from eyes enucleated for malignant melanoma of posterior choroid are usually utilized for corneal grafting. This research refers to cases of posterior melanomas which extended anteriorly, in which the utilization of the corneae for grafting was doubtful.

Derived terms

• corneal
• corneal neuralgia
• corneitis
• ectocornea
• megalocornea
• microcornea
• sclerocornea

 

Related terms

• luna cornea

Translations

layer forming the front of the eye

• Arabic: قَرْنِيَّة f (qarniyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: قرنية f (qaraneya)

• Armenian: եղջերաթաղանթ (hy) (eġǰeratʻaġantʻ)
• Bulgarian: роговица f (rogovica)
• Catalan: còrnia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 角膜 (zh) (jiǎomó), 眼角膜 (zh) (yǎnjiǎomó)

• Czech: rohovka (cs) f
• Danish: hornhinde (da)
• Esperanto: korneo
• Finnish: sarveiskalvo (fi)
• French: cornée (fr) f
• Galician: córnea (gl) f
• Georgian: რქოვანა (rkovana)
• German: Hornhaut (de) f
• Greek: κερατοειδής χιτώνας (el) m (keratoeidís chitónas)
• Hungarian: szaruhártya (hu)
• Irish: coirne f
• Italian: cornea (it) f
• Japanese: 角膜 (ja) (かくまく, kakumaku)
• Khmer: គ្រាប់ភ្នែក (kroap pnɛɛk)
• Korean: 각막(角膜) (ko) (gangmak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: korniye f

• Latvian: radzene f
• Macedonian: рожница (mk) f (rožnica)
• Maori: kiriwhatu
• Mongolian: эвэрлэг бүрхэвч (everleg bürxevč), эвэр бүрхэвч (ever bürxevč)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hornhinne m or f

  Nynorsk: hornhinne f

• Persian: قرنیه (fa) (qarniye)
• Polish: rogówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: córnea (pt)
• Punjabi: ਪਾਰਦਰਸ਼ੀ ਝਿੱਲੀ f (pārdaraśī jhillī)
• Romanian: cornee (ro) f
• Russian: рогови́ца (ru) f (rogovíca)
• Serbo-Croatian: kornea, rožnica (sh) f, rožnjača (sh) f
• Shan: တႃသႂ် (tǎa sǎue)
• Slovak: rohovka
• Spanish: córnea (es) f
• Swedish: hornhinna (sv) n, kornea (sv)
• Tagalog: sikwit-mata
• Thai: กระจกตา (th) (grà-jòk-dtaa)
• Turkish: kornea (tr), saydam tabaka (tr)
• Ukrainian: рогі́вка f (rohívka)
• Vietnamese: giác mạc (vi)
• Volapük: korned (vo)
• Welsh: cornbilen f

See also

• iris
• pupil
• sclera

Anagrams

• Carone, canoer, ceroan, earcon

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔr.ne.a/
• Rhymes: -ɔrnea
• Hyphenation: còr‧ne‧a

Noun

cornea f (plural cornee)

1. (anatomy) cornea

Derived terms

• corneale

Adjective

cornea

1. feminine singular of corneo

Anagrams

• Nearco, Nocera, ancore, c'erano, canore, careno, carenò, carneo, cerano, creano, nocerà, ranceo, recano

Latin

Adjective

cornea

1. inflection of corneus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

corneā

1. ablative feminine singular of corneus

References

• cornea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Spanish

Verb

cornea

1. inflection of cornear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative