: the dense fibrous opaque white outer coat enclosing the eyeball except the part covered by the cornea see eye illustration
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Minimal-prep when possible, shade matching to skin and sclera.
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Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Daniella Liguori Yellow squiggles flow from yellow sclera, as if taking note of what the eyes have witnessed.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
In order to get in, the doctors make tiny incisions in the white parts of the eye (the sclera) and use a hollow needle-like device with suction.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
Seeing sclera on the face of another person, Hare says, is one way babies who are just a few months old identify another living creature as being human.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024
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Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Daniella Liguori Yellow squiggles flow from yellow sclera, as if taking note of what the eyes have witnessed.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
In order to get in, the doctors make tiny incisions in the white parts of the eye (the sclera) and use a hollow needle-like device with suction.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
Seeing sclera on the face of another person, Hare says, is one way babies who are just a few months old identify another living creature as being human.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Sclera.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sclera. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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sclera
noun
: the dense fibrous white or bluish white tissue that forms the outer covering of the back five-sixths of the eye and is replaced in front by the transparent cornea with which it is continuous
Medical Definition
sclera
noun
: the dense fibrous opaque white outer coat enclosing the eyeball except the part covered by the cornea
called also sclerotic, sclerotic coat
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