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Chamber, anterior(health)
anterior chamber(medicine)
anterior chamber of eye(medicine)
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Endothelium(medicine)

mastich (medicine) and endothelium of anterior chamber (medicine)


mastich (medicine)


mastich -->
mastic


1. <botany> A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia (P. Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; called also, mastic tree.

2. A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes.

3. A kind of cement composed of burnt clay, litharge, and linseed oil, used for plastering walls, etc.

<botany> Barbary mastic, a lofty tree (Bursera gummifera) full of gum resin in every part.

Origin: F, fr. L. Mastiche, mastichum, Gr, fr. To chew, because of its being used in the East for chewing

Alternative forms: mastich.

Source: Websters Dictionary


endothelium of anterior chamber (medicine)


endothelium of anterior chamber


A single layer of large, squamous cells that covers the posterior surface of the cornea.

Synonym: endothelium camerae anterioris.