Usage Note
Regenbogenhaut is a common German synonym for Iris and translates literally as 'rainbow skin'. Both terms are used; the compound is preferred in plain-language patient information. It determines eye colour and regulates pupil size.
Examples
"Die Farbe der Regenbogenhaut wird durch den Melaningehalt bestimmt."
Natural Translation
The colour of the iris is determined by the melanin content.
Literal Translation
The colour of the rainbow-skin is through the melanin-content determined.
Related Words
- Akkommodation accommodation (focusing adjustment of the eye lens)
- Anosmie anosmia, loss of smell
- Blick look
- Bogengang semicircular canal (inner ear)
- Brennen burning sensation
- Dunkeladaptation dark adaptation (eye adjustment from light to darkness)
- Dämmerungssehen twilight vision, scotopic vision
- Eigengeruch body odour; characteristic personal scent
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