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 aqueous humor 名詞
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 A·que·ous a.
 1. Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery.
    The aqueous vapor of the air.   --Tyndall.
 2. Made from, or by means of, water.
    An aqueous deposit.   --Dana.
 Aqueous extract, an extract obtained from a vegetable substance by steeping it in water.
 Aqueous humor Anat., one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.)
 Aqueous rocks Geol., those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.
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 Hu·mor n.  [Written also humour.]
 1. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
 Note: ☞ The ancient physicians believed that there were four humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion of which the temperament and health depended.
 2. Med. A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. “A body full of humors.”
 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.
 Examine how your humor is inclined,
 And which the ruling passion of your mind.   --Roscommon.
    A prince of a pleasant humor.   --Bacon.
    I like not the humor of lying.   --Shak.
 4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.
    Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humors to be endured?   --South.
 5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.
 For thy sake I admit
 That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit.   --Goldsmith.
    A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host.   --W. Irving.
 Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or Crystalline lens, Vitreous humor. Anat. See Eye.
 Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind.
 Syn: -- Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood; frame; whim; fancy; caprice. See Wit.

 aqueous humor
      n : the limpid fluid within the eyeball between the cornea and
          the lens [syn: aqueous humour]