vitreous humor

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsvitreous humourvitreous body

   Broaderliquid body substance

Questions about vitreous humor

What does vitreous humor mean?

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

What is another word for vitreous humor?

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

vitreous humor 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.