vitreous body

1. 1.

   the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball

   Synonymsvitreous humorvitreous humour

   Broaderliquid body substance

Questions about vitreous body

What does vitreous body mean?

vitreous body means "the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball".

What is another word for vitreous body?

Close synonyms include vitreous humor, vitreous humour. 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 vitreous body a common word?

vitreous body 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.