Relating to or affecting both the cornea and the sclera (the white part of the eye) together.
A compound medical term from 'corneo-' (cornea) plus 'sclerotic' from Greek 'skleros' meaning hard. This technical descriptor emerged in 19th-century ophthalmology.
When eye doctors see problems affecting both the clear front (cornea) and white part (sclera) of your eye, they use this word to describe how connected those tissues are!
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