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dua's layer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English

Syllables
du-a's lay-er
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A layer of the cornea, between the corneal stroma and the Descemet's membrane, composed primarily of collagen.

Etymology

Dua+layer. From Harminder Singh Dua, lead researcher of the group at the University of Nottingham which discovered this layer in 2013.

Inflected Forms

Dua's layers (plural)

Synonyms

DL pre-Descemet's layer PDL

Questions

What does dua's layer mean?
A layer of the cornea, between the corneal stroma and the Descemet's membrane, composed primarily of collagen.
Where does dua's layer come from?
Dua+layer. From Harminder Singh Dua, lead researcher of the group at the University of Nottingham which discovered this layer in 2013.

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