Word Meanings - CHOROIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the choroid coat.

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• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CHOROID
  resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. -- n.
• CHOROIDAL
  Pertaining to the choroid coat.
• SUPRACHOROID; SUPRACHOROIDAL
  Situated above the choroid; -- applied to the layer of the choroid coat of the eyeball next to the sclerotic.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach