sclera

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsklɛəɹə/, /ˈsklɪəɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹə, -ɪəɹə

Noun

sclera (plural scleras or sclerae or scleræ)

1. (anatomy) The white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea.

   Synonyms: sclerotic, sclerotic coat

   • 2007, Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao:

     She'd been back a week and it was clear that college-level track was kicking her ass, the sclera in her normally wide manga-eyes were shot through with blood vessels.

   • 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 13, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

     Such pressures explain why humans are peculiar in having our rather small irises set against a white background—the sclera—in our eyes. Anyone watching us can infer where we are looking or whom we are looking at.

Derived terms

• corneosclera
• episclera
• scleral
• scleritis

 

Related terms

• scleralization
• sclero-

 

Translations

white of the eye

• Arabic: مُقْلَة f (muqla), بَيَاض اَلْعَيْن m (bayāḍ al-ʕayn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鞏膜／巩膜 (zh) (gǒngmó)

• Dutch: oogwit (nl) n, sclera (nl) f
• Esperanto: sklero
• Finnish: silmänvalkuainen (fi)
• German: Lederhaut (de) f, Sklera (de) f
• Greek: σκληρός χιτώνας m (sklirós chitónas)

  Ancient: σφενδόνη f (sphendónē)

• Hebrew: לֹבֶן הָעַיִן (he) m
• Irish: gealacán m, gealacán súile m
• Italian: sclera (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: reqe (ku) f, spîka çav f

• Latvian: sklēra f, acs baltums m
• Macedonian: белка f (belka)
• Maori: teatea
• Persian: صُلبِیَّه (fa) (sulbiyya), سَفِیدیِ چَشم
• Polish: twardówka (pl) f, białkówka f
• Portuguese: esclera f
• Russian: скле́ра (ru) f (skléra)
• Serbo-Croatian: beonjača (sh) f
• Spanish: esclera f, esclerótica (es) f
• Swedish: sklera (sv), ögonvita (sv)
• Turkish: göz akı (tr), sert kat (tr), sert tabaka (tr)
• Ukrainian: біло́к (uk) m (bilók)

Further reading

• sclera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Casler, Clares, carles, clears, lacers, sarcel, sarcle, scaler

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsklɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Hyphenation: sclè‧ra

Etymology 1

Noun

sclera f (plural sclere)

1. (anatomy) sclera

Related terms

• sclerale
• sclerite
• sclerotico

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sclera

1. inflection of sclerare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative