crystalline lens

Questions about crystalline lens

What does crystalline lens mean?

crystalline lens means "biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina".

What is another word for crystalline lens?

Close synonyms include lens, lens of the eye. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crystalline lens a common word?

crystalline lens 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.