1. Χοριοειδῆς · Chorioeidēs — Chantraine
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χορῐοειδής
chorioeides
œuf {Arist.) ; d
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What it meant
2. χορῐοειδής · chorioeidēs — LSJ
like the afterbirth, ὑμήν Arist. HA 561b32, etc.
χ. χιτών choroid coat of the eye, Ruf. Onom. 153, Gal. UP 10.2; 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. GA 753b22, etc. Adv. -δῶς Steph. in Hp. 2.373D.
Where it came from
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