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  • noun Plural form of conjunctiva.

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Examples

  • Conjunctivitis represents an inflammation of the conjunctivae, - the mucous membranes that are covering the white of the eyes and the inner side of the eyelids.

    Allergic Conjunctivitis Treatment 2008

  • But there weren't any marks, and the conjunctivae of the eyes that stared at the ceiling showed no damage.

    Quiller Meridian Hall, Adam 1993

  • Even though I had narrowed my eyes, he would catch the light on their conjunctivae, the man out there.

    Quiller Meridian Hall, Adam 1993

  • - Acute inflammation of the conjunctivae which may be infectious

    Chapter 10 1993

  • STAGE III (dispensary) - Scarring and infiltration of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctivae and of the cornea.

    Chapter 10 1993

  • - "Red eye" (injected conjunctivae), either unilateral or bilateral.

    Chapter 10 1993

  • If I gave these people all the time they wanted they'd simply put me through intensive interrogation and I'd come out days later with not much more than pulp where the flesh had been, with a torn urethra and clouded conjunctivae and the kidneys contused and pouring blood into the urine and my sight gone and my brain out of synch and Meridian blown to hell.

    Quiller Meridian Hall, Adam 1993

  • Dryness (xerosis) affecting first the conjunctivae then the cornea.

    Chapter 10 1993

  • “She had petechial hemorrhages in the conjunctivae, and facial and neck skin,” I said to Abby.

    POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990

  • “She had petechial hemorrhages in the conjunctivae, and facial and neck skin,” I said to Abby.

    POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990

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