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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a highly vascular membrane in the eye between the retina and the sclera; a dark pigmentation minimizes the scattering of light inside the eye;
[syn: choroid, choroid coat]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Choroid \Cho"roid\, a. [gr. ?; ? chorion + e'i^dos form.] (Anat.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. -- n. The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye. [1913 Webster] Choroid plexus (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

choroid n 1: a highly vascular membrane in the eye between the retina and the sclera; a dark pigmentation minimizes the scattering of light inside the eye [syn: choroid, choroid coat]