χοριοειδής: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ές, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[like the afterbirth]], [[ὑμήν]] <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>561b32</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> χοριοειδὴς [[χιτών]] = [[choroid]] [[coat]] of the [[eye]], <span class="bibl">Ruf.<span class="title">Onom.</span>153</span>, <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">UP</span>10.2</span>; χοριοειδὴς [[μῆνιγξ]], of the brain, the [[pia mater]], ib.<span class="bibl">8.9</span>, Herophil. ap. <span class="bibl">Ruf.<span class="title">Onom.</span> 149</span>; so of the [[ventricle]]s of the brain, ibid.; <b class="b3">χοριοειδὴ πλέγματα</b> (called [[σύστρεμμα|συστρέμματα]] by Herophil.) in the [[brain]], Gal.2.719.—sometimes wrongly written [[χοροειδής]] in codd., as in <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">GA</span>753b22</span>, etc. Adv. [[χοριοειδῶς]] <span class="bibl">Steph. <span class="title">in Hp.</span>2.373D.</span></span>