Definitions for choroids

choroids cho·roid

Spelling: [kawr-oid, kohr-]
IPA: /ˈkɔr ɔɪd, ˈkoʊr-/

Choroids is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in choroids (cdhioors).

Definitions for choroids

noun

  1. choroid coat.

adjective

  1. like the chorion; membranous.

Origin of choroids

1625-35; Greek choroeidḗs false reading for chorioeidḗs chorioid

Examples for choroids

Up to the fifth day this vascular loop is the only structure passing through the choroid slit.

The thicker outer wall gives rise to the retina, and the thinner inner wall to the choroid pigment.

Lining the inner surface of the sclerotic is the second coat, the choroid.

On the sixth day the choroid slit becomes rapidly closed, so that at the end of the sixth day it is reduced to a mere seam.

This vessel soon atrophies, and with it the distal opening in the choroid slit completely vanishes.

The comparison of the choroid plexus to a worm is very common.

With reference to the choroid fissure we may state that its behaviour varies somewhat in the different types.

In the Lizard the choroid slit closes considerably earlier than in the Fowl.

This notch is the only rudiment of the choroid fissure of other types.

The whole structure is known as the tela vasculosa, or choroid plexus of the fourth ventricle (fig. 250, chd 4).

Word Value for choroids
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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