ALBUGINEA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Whitish tunic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("albuginea" is a kind of...):

adventitia; tunic; tunica (an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "albuginea"):

sclera; sclerotic coat (the whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball)

tunica albuginea testes (whitish cover of the testicle)

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