Hyaline

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.

Compare hyaline with other words:

hyaline vs. hyalite

hyacine vs. hyaline

hyaline vs. synchondrosis

fermentation vs. hyaline

alcoholic vs. hyaline

hyaline vs. sugar

dextrogyrate vs. hyaline

decomposition vs. hyaline

hyaline vs. nitrogenous

hyaline vs. hydatid

cyst vs. hyaline

hyaline vs. wall

hyaline vs. sky

hyaline vs. sea

amorphous vs. hyaline

hyaline vs. transparent