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scleral(dictionary)
scleral(medicine)
scleral ring(medicine)
scleral rigidity(medicine)
scleral resection(medicine)
scleral ectasia(medicine)
scleral diseases(medicine)
scleral buckling(medicine)
scleral roll(medicine)

scleral resection (medicine) and chase(1) (iou)


scleral resection (medicine)


scleral resection


Shortening of the outer coat of the eye in retinal separation.


chase(1) (iou)



chase noun1. Also (arch.) chace. ME.
[Old French chace (mod. chasse) from Proto-Romance, from verb whence CHASE verb1.]
The action or an act of chasing; pursuit; hunting. ME.
paper-chase, steeplechase, etc. give chase (to) go in pursuit (of). lead a person a chase: see LEAD verb1. the chase the sport of hunting. wild-goose chase: see WILD GOOSE.
b. A steeplechase. L19.
The or one's object of pursuit, as an animal, a ship, etc. ME.
A tract of unenclosed land reserved for hunting, spec. one owned by the Crown. Now chiefly Hist. exc. in proper names. ME.
The right of hunting over or of keeping animals for hunting on a tract of land. LME.
Real Tennis. The second impact of an unreturned ball, for which the player scores unless the opponent betters it by a similar and subsequent unreturned impact which lands nearer the end wall where the chase was made. LME.
Hist. The chase-guns of a ship; the part of a ship where the chase-ports are. E17.
Comb.: chase chorus Jazz: in which musicians improvise for a few bars in turn; chase-gun, chase-port Hist. a gun, port, in the bow or stern of a vessel for use while chasing or being chased.