sclera

Borrowed from New Latin sclera, from Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsklɛəɹə/, /ˈsklɪəɹə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹə, -ɪəɹə

sclera (plural scleras or sclerae or scleræ)

2. (anatomy) The white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea.

   Synonyms: sclerotic, sclerotic coat

   • 2007, Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao:

     She'd been back a week and it was clear that college-level track was kicking her ass, the sclera in her normally wide manga-eyes were shot through with blood vessels.

   • 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 13, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

     Such pressures explain why humans are peculiar in having our rather small irises set against a white background—the sclera—in our eyes. Anyone watching us can infer where we are looking or whom we are looking at.

• sclera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Casler, Clares, carles, clears, lacers, sarcel, sarcle, scaler

• IPA^(key): /ˈsklɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Hyphenation: sclè‧ra

sclera f (plural sclere)

1. (anatomy) sclera

• sclerale
• sclerite
• sclerotico

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sclera

1. inflection of sclerare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative