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The white, opaque, fibrous, outer tunic of the eyeball, covering it entirely excepting the segment covered anteriorly by the cornea. It is essentially avascular but contains apertures for vessels, lymphatics, and nerves. It receives the tendons of insertion of the extraocular muscles and at the corneoscleral junction contains the CANAL OF SCHLEMM. (From Cline et al., Dictionary of Visual Science, 4th ed)
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- Scleras
- Scleral Spur
- Scleral Spurs
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Indexed with the subheadings abnormalities, anatomy & histology, blood supply, chemistry, cytology, diagnostic imaging, drug effects, embryology, enzymology, growth & development, immunology, injuries, innervation, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, pathology, physiology, physiopathology, radiation effects, surgery, transplantation, ultrastructure, virology.
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inflammation = SCLERITIS; neoplasms = SCLERAL DISEASES + EYE NEOPLASMS; blue sclera = SCLERA /abnorm
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Sclera. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012590. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012590
- Sclera. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sclera
- Sclera. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193107