| Sattler's veil | A diffuse oedema of the corneal epithelium that may develop after wearing contact lenses. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Sattler, Hubert | <person> Austrian ophthalmologist, 1844-1928. See: Sattler's elastic layer, Sattler's veil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sattler's elastic layer | The middle layer of the choroid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aqueduct veil | A membrane obstructing the sylvian aqueduct, causing a noncommunicating hydrocephalus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| veil | 1. Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; especially, a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face. "The veil of the temple was rent in twain." (Matt. Xxvii. 51) "She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore." (Milton) 2. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. "[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page." (Shak) 3. <botany> The calyptra of mosses. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; called also velum. 4. A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil. 5. <zoology> Same as Velum. To take the veil, to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun. Origin: OE. Veile, OF. Veile, F. Voile, L. Velum a sail, covering, curtain, veil, probably fr. Vehere to bear, carry, and thus originally, that which bears the ship on. See Vehicle, and cf. Reveal Alternative forms: vail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| veil cell | An antigen-presenting cell that has veil-like cytoplasmic processes and circulates in the blood and lymph. Synonym: veiled cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jackson's veil | A thin vascular membrane or veil-like adhesion, covering the anterior surface of the ascending colon from the caecum to the right flexure; it may cause obstruction by kinking of the bowel. Synonym: Jackson's veil. (05 Mar 2000) |