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thumb|Pterygium of the eye
A pterygium (: pterygia or pterygiums) is any wing-like triangular membrane occurring in the neck, eyes, knees, elbows, ankles or digits.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pterygium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.