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Vitreous body

1) Transparent gel filling the inner portion of the eyeball between the lens and the retina.

2) The clear colourless transparent jelly that fills the eyeball posterior to the lens, is enclosed by a delicate hyaloid membrane, and in the adult is nearly homogeneous but in the foetus is pervaded by fibres with minute nuclei at their points of junction.

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