Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Choroid \Cho"roid\, a. [gr. ?; ? chorion + e'i^dos form.]
(Anat.)
resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the
ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.
-- n. The choroid coat of the eye. See {Eye}.
[1913 Webster]
{Choroid plexus} (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike
processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels,
which project into the ventricles of the brain.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
choroid plexus
n 1: a vascular plexus of the cerebral ventricles that regulate
intraventricular pressure [syn: {choroid plexus}, {plexus
choroideus}]