Hyaline

[haiәlin]

Definition

(noun.) a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions.

(adj.) resembling glass in transparency or translucency; 'the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline'-Sacheverell Sitwell .

Checker: Sumner--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.

(n.) A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.

(n.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.

(n.) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.

Typist: Manfred

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Glassy, crystalline, transparent.

Editor: Solomon

Definition

adj. glassy: consisting of or like glass.—n. a glassy transparent surface.—n. Hyales′cence the process of becoming glassy.—adj. Hyales′cent.—ns. Hy′alite a variety of opal like colourless gum; Hyalīt′is inflammation of the vitreous humour; Hyalog′raphy the art of engraving on glass.—adj. Hy′aloid hyaline transparent.

Typist: Melba