The word comes from the Latin word "limbus", meaning the edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pope Considers Abolishing Limbo | Impact Lab] Reference

The stem cells of the cornea, located in an area called limbus, multiplied rapidly in the gel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

The word itself comes from the Latin limbus, meaning an "edge or boundary.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Shaw: Inside the Illinois Prison Known as "Hotel Hell"] Reference

Yes, this is one application of the limbus/limbo/limbn2 complex.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY.] Reference

If the limbus had a conscious vocabulary, "awe" might be its second entry right after "angst".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elodea] Reference

In cases where both eyes were damaged by burns, cells were taken from an unaffected part of the limbus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem Cells Reverse Blindness Caused By Burns] Reference

Decades of psychological mining have produced a stream of light and sound that hugs my limbus like latex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

In a normal eye, stem cells in the limbus are like factories, churning out new cells to replace dead corneal cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem Cells Reverse Blindness Caused By Burns] Reference

The dislike is more visceral than cerebral, though my cortex is slowly finding him every bit as unlovable as my limbus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

Teaching on a good day reflects the fine line between ordered cortical thought and the mad, wise ramblings of the limbus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

Corollularum tubus pilosulus, limbus to - tus revolutus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium] Reference

Only one square millimeter of limbus tissue is required.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

(Late Lat. limbus) a word of Teutonic derivation, meaning literally.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Usually the cornea repairs itself using these cells from the limbus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

The limbus fossæ ovalis denotes the free margin of the septum secundum.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. 3. Development of the Vascular System] Reference

The limbus fossæ ovalis (annulus ovalis) is the prominent oval margin of the fossa ovalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. 4b. The Heart] Reference

And this, substantially, is all that Catholic tradition teaches regarding the limbus patrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Rome, with its fever in Summer and rheumatism and pneumonia in Winter, has sent many an artist to limbus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters] Reference

Collocat, ut limbus totumque appareat aurum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Zonae cingunt per quam limbus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

The redness is maximum near the limbus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

(limbus pervulorum).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

The limbus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference