About The Medical Condition Scleras

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Scleras

Scleras Medical Condition Defined & Explained
Scleras Medical Condition

What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Scleras?

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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