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crystallinus humor
بردية baradiyya
n. brd – crystalloid, crystalline (humour) (of the eye, anat.) show/hide quotes-
Avic. An. vol. I 139, 15: nervus vero concavus est reddens visum, sed non est recipiens: non est enim recipiens nisi ille cui redditur, qui est crystallinus humor
Rahm. 72, 8: والعصبة المجوفة مؤدية للبصر ولكنها غير قابلة إنما القابل ما إليه تؤدى وهو البردية
- 1 s.v. bardiyya Avic. An.
In translations from the Greek, baradiyya, derived from barad ‘hail’, is an equivalent for Greek κρυσταλλοειδής. Ullmann 2006, 598. This sense of the Arabic term is not documented in Lisān, Freytag, Lane, Dozy and Wehr.