11/2/07

Lens, from the Latin, lens, the lentil bean.

The lens of the eye was so named by the Romans in the 1st century B.C. because of its resemblance to a lentil bean in shape and size.

The diameter of the human lens at birth is about 6 mm. By the time one is in their mid-sixties the lens will typically have reached a maximum diameter of around 9 mm. (The average diameter of a lentil is 6-7 mm.)


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1 comment:

AMorris said...

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Thanks for looking all of the meanings up and enlightening us all.