Medical term:
chorioid
choroid
[kor´oid]the middle, vascular coat of the eye, between the sclera and the retina. adj., adj choroid´al. It contains an abundant supply of blood vessels and a large amount of brown pigment that serves to reduce reflection or diffusion of light when it falls on the retina. Adequate nutrition of the eye is dependent upon blood vessels in the choroid.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
chorioid
(kôr′ē-oid′)n. & adj.
Variant of choroid.
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