vitreous humour

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsvitreous humorvitreous body

   Broaderliquid body substance

Questions about vitreous humour

What does vitreous humour mean?

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

What is another word for vitreous humour?

Close synonyms include vitreous humor, 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 humour a common word?

vitreous humour 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.