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χορι^οειδής , ές,
A.like the afterbirth, “ὑμήν” Arist.HA561b32, etc.
II. χ. χιτών choroid coat of the eye, Ruf.Onom.153, Gal.UP10.2; χ. μῆνιγξ, of the brain, the pia mater, ib.8.9, Herophil. ap. Ruf.Onom. 149; so of the ventricles of the brain, ibid.; χ. πλέγματα (called συστρέμματα by Herophil.) in the brain, Gal.2.719.—Sts. wrongly written χοροειδής in codd., as in Arist.GA753b22, etc. Adv. “-δῶς” Steph. in Hp.2.373D.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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