Hyaline

Definitions

1. Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
   countable, poetic, uncountable
2. A clear translucent substance in tissues.
   countable, uncountable
3. The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.”

“Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.”

“where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border⟳ becoming more marked”

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