What's the difference between glossy and hyaloid?

Glossy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.
  • (superl.) Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
  • (2) About 20,000 of those glossy programmes are normally sold for a big occasion at Manchester United but for this game almost four times that number had been produced.
  • (3) The law will affect a wide variety of publications, including the country’s leading business daily, Vedomosti, the Russian versions of glossy magazines such as Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and television channels such as Disney and Eurosport.
  • (4) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
  • (5) Photograph: Martin Godwin They say: Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Condé Nast: "Given the current economic climate, it is reassuring that glossy magazines are still selling in considerable numbers.
  • (6) Boyle loves her physical makeover: the glossy, chestnut hair that replaced the grey, and the posh frocks.
  • (7) Beyond the sumptuous lifestyle spreads in glossies or the gift-strewn shop windows at Harrods and Selfridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop website , shows like Downton Abbey keep us in thrall to the idea of moolah, mansions and autocratic power.
  • (8) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
  • (9) Glossy hair with waves and curls: this evokes allusions to Moorish Spain and Mexico.
  • (10) The launch - from five sites across the US in partnership with Canadian media group Quebecor - will bring him into direct competition with the giants of the glossy world of American publishing, like Time Inc and Condé Nast.
  • (11) For people who don’t care about pop music or the fashion industry, it’s just another month of glossy magazines.
  • (12) Asos also publishes a glossy magazine with circulation of 470,000 – more than Glamour , Grazia or even the giveaway Stylist .
  • (13) Louise Chunn, the former editor of Good Housekeeping and InStyle, is the new editor of upmarket "thinking women's glossy" magazine Psychologies.
  • (14) However, Condé Nast insiders say Greig's resignation is expected within days and the glossy magazine publisher's managing director, Nicolas Coleridge, is understood to be discreetly searching for a replacement Tatler editor.
  • (15) In addition to glossiness, color coordinates in the CIELAB color scale and surface roughness were measured.
  • (16) When you subscribe to the Daily Telegraph you get so much extra: “extra, extra every day”, says the glossy new TV commercial for Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney tabloid.
  • (17) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
  • (18) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
  • (19) It seemed a fairytale romance, ideal fodder for the glossy fan magazines, as both were young, attractive, rich and pampered.
  • (20) Don't place too much authority on universities' glossy photos and grinning case studies – they're adverts.

Hyaloid


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the latest phase the periequatorial material is vanishing, the hyaloid capillaries disappear, the density of the posterior granular substance decreases.
  • (2) It is likely that the spontaneous and long-lasting haemorrhage in the lens had been caused by rupture of the anterior end of the hyaloid artery attached to the posterior lens surface and had occurred in the late prenatal or early postnatal period.
  • (3) Fluorescein angiography of a cyst of the hyaloid system shows leakage from the hyaloid vessels.
  • (4) Our results show that there are at least two principal sites of laminin B1 mRNA synthesis: (a) the hyaloid vessels and the lens during the period of major axonal outgrowth, and (b) the retinal ganglion cells at later development stages.
  • (5) An analysis of 54 cases of ARD, and a PRD control group, revealed that retraction of the posterior vitreous hyaloid was more severe in the aphakic eyes.
  • (6) During the follow-up, the detached posterior hyaloidal membrane appeared to have collapsed on the anterior retina in concertina-like folds.
  • (7) The vasa hyaloidea propria and tunica vasculosa lentis are small branches of the hyaloid artery which fill the primary vitreous.
  • (8) We report on a patient with oculo-dento-osseous dysplasia and bilateral persistence of the hyaloid system.
  • (9) The well-developed hyaloid artery is identifiable ultrastructurally as an arteriole consisting of a nonfenestrated intima, a multilayered smooth muscular media, a connective tissue adventitia, and a perivascular sheath.
  • (10) The time of the complete disappearance of the hyaloid artery varied considerably in individual monkeys; remnants of the hyaloid artery were often present on the disc (Bergmeister's papilla) in adult life.
  • (11) The formation of the glial sheath of the hyaloid artery also appears to be a consequence of traction from the primary vitreous.
  • (12) The mechanism proposed for the passage of ghost cells to the anterior chamber is through a defect in the anterior hyaloid face, created as the vitreous liquefies and degenerates.
  • (13) Is this not done, blood will eventually enter the vitreous gel through holes that develop in the posterior hyaloid membrane.
  • (14) A 22-year-old woman presented with nasal dragging of the disc and nasal ectopia of the macula due to persistent hyaloid vessels.
  • (15) The contours of FG and FD show that they leave predominantly by diffusion into the posterior chamber, encountering only a minor barrier at the anterior hyaloid membrane.
  • (16) This method, which combines a lens fixation procedure with trans pars plana vitrectomy techniques to ensure safe manipulation of the lens implant in the absence of an intact anterior hyaloid face, is ideally suited for retrieval and repositioning of PC-IOLs dislocated into the vitreous.
  • (17) A posterior vitreous separation with subsequent vascularization of the posterior hyaloid face occurs early in the course of the disease process and is coincident with the development of maculopathy and schisis cavities.
  • (18) The embryonic fissure extends into the optic stalk which connects the cavity of the optic vesicle with the cavity of the neural canal; the hyaloid artery penetrates into the optic cup through the embryonic fissure.
  • (19) This technique has been most helpful in diabetics who have an attached posterior hyaloid.
  • (20) High-resolution contact B-scan echographic imaging of the ciliary body and peripheral retina was performed on five eyes with anterior hyaloidal fibrovascular proliferation and media opacity by means of a wide (58 degrees) scanning arc.

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