How to Use cornea in a Sentence

cornea

noun

• The light that comes in via the cornea and through the lens winds up at this tissue in the back.
  — Meryl Davids Landau, Good Housekeeping, 13 Mar. 2020
• Like a viewfinder, the cornea takes in light and transmits it to the lens.
  — Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• The cornea’s function is to focus light on the retina at the back of the eye.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2018
• The cornea's function is to focus light on the retina at the back of the eye.
  — Author: Roni Caryn Rabin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2018
• Lanier was starting to freeze at that point, and so were the men's corneas.
  — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2018
• One of his corneas went to Egypt; the other stayed in the United States.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 22 Dec. 2019
• This model can be unscrewed from its base to show the cornea, pupil, and the iris.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2014
• The cornea is the outer layer of the eye, serving as the first clear layer for the lens.
  — Dan Olson, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2008
• The goal, says Clinch, is to strengthen the adhesion between the skin cells and the cornea.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Think of the cornea, lens and retina as working in much the same way as a camera.
  — Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• Bennett said that patients of his have chewed off the tips of their own tongues and scratched their corneas.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 9 May 2016
• When the patient removes the patch, the microneedles stay behind in the cornea.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2018
• The blast left the front part of Northup's eye deformed, damaging the cornea and bruising the retina.
  — Ashley Welch, CBS News, 29 June 2018
• The 53-year-old can’t see well enough anymore to drive at night and had noticed new white spots near her cornea.
  — al, 26 Apr. 2022
• The lens of the eye, along with the cornea, bends the light coming into the eye so it is perfectly focused on the retina.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 3 Jan. 2022
• What Terry learned was the backs of the baby's corneas were defective.
  — Tom Hallman Jr., OregonLive.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• This includes skin, the cornea of the eye, mucous membrane linings, etc.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 25 Aug. 2022
• The world casts its light through the cornea and lens and onto the retina, a paper-thin mask of tissue at the back of the eye made of the same cells that make up the brain.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
• The doctor scraped my cornea to do a culture and see what was attacking my eye.
  — Michelle Vartan, SELF, 12 July 2024
• The researchers also looked at how much the axial length — measured from the cornea to the back of the eye — was changing over time.
  — NBC News, 1 Aug. 2021
• The company’s drug targets cells in the cornea, the clear outer layer that covers the front of your eye.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
• The corneal endothelium is a thin layer of cells that forms the inner lining of the cornea.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• According to Beyer, rubbing the eye too hard could cause an injury to the cornea.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 26 Jan. 2024
• The way Nelson describes it, instead of being rounded and smooth, his cornea comes to a point.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
• He was told that the doctors would like to do a cornea transplant, but only if the damage was limited to the lens.
  — Michael Lerseth, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
• Those lenses were light enough that now smaller lenses could be made to sit solely on the cornea.
  — oregonlive, 5 May 2021
• Long-term contact use can lead to loss of sensation in the cornea, the eye's clear surface, Dr. Maskin explains.
  — Jenny McCoy, Health.com, 27 Oct. 2021
• Pterygium, for instance, is a growth of fleshy tissue that can cover part of the cornea and hurt your vision.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 30 May 2017
• Summary Laser eye surgery is a type of surgery done to reshape the cornea and improve vision.
  — Vanessa Caceres, Verywell Health, 11 Sep. 2024
• The fundamental science behind crafting a cornea had long been known.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024