Etymology

Dua's layer

Today it means: A layer of the cornea, between the corneal stroma and the Descemet's membrane, composed primarily of collagen. Full definition →

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The story

Dua+layer. From Harminder Singh Dua, lead researcher of the group at the University of Nottingham which discovered this layer in 2013.

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