: the transparent part of the coat of the eyeball that covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior see eye illustration
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Unlike the innumerable photons from sunlight, perhaps a dozen per second trickle through my cornea from this distant messenger, having departed it years ago, colliding with my photoreceptors and ending their unlikely journey.
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Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Because the surface of the cornea contains multiple tiny microabrasions from your contact rubbing against it, these can function as openings for the amoeba to infiltrate—and the longer you’re exposed to it, the further in it can burrow.
—Holly Burns, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
The actor's kidneys and corneas were also donated.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Yuhas said rubbing could trigger keratoconus, an eye condition that weakens the cornea.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2025
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Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Because the surface of the cornea contains multiple tiny microabrasions from your contact rubbing against it, these can function as openings for the amoeba to infiltrate—and the longer you’re exposed to it, the further in it can burrow.
—Holly Burns, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
The actor's kidneys and corneas were also donated.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Yuhas said rubbing could trigger keratoconus, an eye condition that weakens the cornea.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Cornea.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cornea. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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