lens capsule

1. 1.

   a tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye

   Broadercapsule

   Part oflens

Questions about lens capsule

What does lens capsule mean?

lens capsule means "a tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye".

Is lens capsule a common word?

lens capsule 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.