Hypertext Webster Gateway: "choroid"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Choroid \Cho"roid\, a. [gr. ?; ? chorion + ? form.] (Anat.)
resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the
ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.
-- n. The choroid coat of the eye. See {Eye}.
{Choroid plexus} (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike
processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels,
which project into the ventricles of the brain.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
choroid
n : a highly vascular membrane in the eye between the retina and
the sclera [syn: {choroid coat}]
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