sclerotal
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sclerotal (not comparable)
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sclerotal (plural sclerotals)
- (anatomy) The optic capsule; the sclerotic coat of the eye.
- 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates:
- The optic capsule , or sclerotal, […] like the acoustic capsule , is cartilaginous in Plagiostomes
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“sclerotal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.