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/ˈsklɛəɹə/ · noun
(anatomy) The white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea..
She'd been back a week and it was clear that college-level track was kicking her ass, the sclera in her normally wide manga-eyes were shot through with blood vessels.
Such pressures explain why humans are peculiar in having our rather small irises set against a white background—the sclera—in our eyes. Anyone watching us can infer where we are looking or whom we are looking at.
Use sclera when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sclera means (anatomy) The white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea..
Common synonyms include sclerotic, sclerotic coat.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She'd been back a week and it was clear that college-level track was kicking her ass, the sclera in her normally wide manga-eyes were shot through with blood vessels.
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