conjunctiva

1. 1.

   a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid

   Broadermucous membrane

   Narrowerbulbar conjunctivapalpebra conjunctivapingueculapterygium

   Part ofeyeeyelid

Other forms of conjunctiva

plural

conjunctivae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about conjunctiva

What does conjunctiva mean?

conjunctiva means "a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid".

How many syllables are in conjunctiva?

conjunctiva has 4 syllables: con-junc-ti-va. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ˌkɑndʒəŋkˈtaɪvə/.

Is conjunctiva a common word?

conjunctiva is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.