noun
sclera
Sclera (noun) means the white part of the eye: the eyeball's tough outer layer, which covers everything except the cornea.
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The white part of the eye: the eyeball's tough outer layer, which covers everything except the cornea.
"She'd been back a week and it was clear that college-level track was kicking her ass, the sclera in her normally wide manga-eyes were shot through with blood vessels."
— Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
"Such pressures explain why humans are peculiar in having our rather small irises set against a white background—the sclera—in our eyes. Anyone watching us can infer where we are looking or whom we are looking at."
— Joseph Henrich (2016)
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Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin sclera, which developed from Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, "hard").
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What is the meaning of sclera?
"sclera" (noun) means the white part of the eye: the eyeball's tough outer layer, which covers everything except the cornea.
