Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Biology A distinctive border or edge, such as the junction between the cornea and sclera of the eyeball.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as limbo, 1.
- n. Pl. limbi (-bī). In anatomy, a border.
- n. In conchology, the circumference of the valves of a bivalve shell from the disk to the border or margin.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine, biology A border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure
Etymologies
- From Latin limbus ("edge, border") (Wiktionary)
- Latin, border. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word comes from the Latin word "limbus", meaning the edge.”
“The real action takes place when the image is downloaded to the computer: sophisticated software isolates the circular area around the iris called the limbus, where a film of tear fluid over the cornea reflects the world like a clear midsummer lake.”
“In the New Testament, Christ refers by various names and figures to the place or state which Catholic tradition has agreed to call the limbus patrum.”
“The procedure involved extracting healthy stem cells from the limbus, which is located between the colored and white part of the eye.”
“The stem cells of the cornea, located in an area called limbus, multiplied rapidly in the gel.”
“The research led by Professor Yann Barrandon, who holds a joint appointment at EPFL and the Lausanne University Hospitals (CHUV), challenges this prevailing opinion that the limbus is the only place where corneal stem cells reside.”
“Since we have only the word border in Englifh, to exprefs the upper fpreading part, both in this, and the polypeta - lous corolla, it would perhaps be better to preferve the Latin terms limbus for the firft and lamina for the fecond.”
“The word itself comes from the Latin limbus, meaning an "edge or boundary.”
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“In cases where both eyes were damaged by burns, cells were taken from an unaffected part of the limbus.”
The Huffington Post: Stem Cells Reverse Blindness Caused By Burns
“The cells were taken from the limbus, the rim around the cornea, the clear window that covers the colored part of the eye.”
The Huffington Post: Stem Cells Reverse Blindness Caused By Burns
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘limbus’.
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The Latin Doctor is Greek to me
Biology Students, Gladiators, Devil Dogs & Harry Potter
et tu, semper fidelis, carpe diem, cui bono, pons asinorum, limbus, e pluribus unum, sine qua non, quidnunc, lacus oblivionis, quincunx, experimentum crucis and 128 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
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Palynology
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Logolepsy
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
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bintalshamsa's list
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liminal words
transformational, entryway words: thresh(hold), fresh relief
liminal, sill, threshold, aletheia, inscape, adit, introit, maze, pore, porism, portal, port and 114 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
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Speak, Memory
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cracknel, shingly, glaucous, stretcherman, goodish, loden, gutticle, percha, plasticine, instar, wellhole, camera-lucida and 357 more...
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The Eyes Have It
parts of the human eye
iris, pupil, sclera, macula, retina, vitreous, conjunctiva, cornea, lens, choroid, optic nerve, ciliary body and 34 more...
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Vocab Words
Study time
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Border, Boundary or Edge
Nouns meaning border, boundary or edge
margin, limit, limes, frontier, verge, fimbria, limbus, purlieu
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Fun to Say
imitable, puddle, limbus, lorgnette, ersatz, saccharine, cirrostratus, susurrus
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