lens of the eye

Questions about lens of the eye

What does lens of the eye mean?

lens of the eye 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 lens of the eye?

Close synonyms include lens, crystalline lens. 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 lens of the eye a common word?

lens of the eye 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.