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  • 41detached breakwater — a breakwater (q.v.) not attached to the shore …

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  • 42detached retina — Separation of most layers of the retina of the eye from the choroid, the pigmented middle layer of the eyeball. With age, small tears can develop in the retina, and the vitreous humour inside the eyeball leaks through, separating the retina from… …

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  • 43detached house — noun A free standing, single family dwelling unit, that does not share a common wall with any other structure …

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  • 44detached — adjective a) Of a house: not joined to another house on either side. b) Having little or no emotions or interest towards someone else …

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  • 45detached retina — de·tached retina di tacht n RETINAL DETACHMENT * * * see retinal detachment * * * a retina whose inner layers are separated from the pigment epithelial layer; see retinal detachment, under detachment …

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  • 46detached iris — iridodialysis …

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  • 47detached vitreous — a vitreous body separated from its usual attachments; see vitreous detachment, under detachment …

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  • 48detached — Synonyms and related words: Laodicean, Olympian, abstract, afoot and lighthearted, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, apathetic, at large, at liberty, backward, bashful, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, bored, broken, candid, careless, casual,… …

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  • 49detached retina — Synonyms and related words: amaurosis, blepharitis, cataract, choroiditis, conjunctivitis, cross eye, defective vision, esotropia, eye defect, glaucoma, gutta serena, iritis, keratitis, optic neuritis, pink eye, retinoblastoma, sty, trachoma,… …

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  • 50detached — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. separate, independent; aloof, preoccupied. See disjunction, inattention. Ant., attached, attentive. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Cut off or removed] Syn. loosened, divided, disjoined, unconnected; see …

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