Hyaline Definition

hīə-lĭn, -līn
adjective
Transparent as glass; glassy.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to hyalin.
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noun
Anything transparent or glassy, as a smooth sea or clear sky.
Webster's New World
(zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
Wiktionary

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

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Origin of Hyaline

  • Late Latin hyalinus from Greek hualinos of glass from hualos glass

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin hyalinus, from late Ancient Greek ύαλινος (ualinos), from ύαλος (ualos, “glass”).

    From Wiktionary

Hyaline Sentence Examples

  • The entosternites are cartilaginous in texture, but they have neither the chemical character nor the microscopic structure of the hyaline cartilage of Vertebrates.

  • Hyaline degeneration is found in certain acute infective conditions; the toxins specially act on these connective-tissue cell elements.

  • The hyaline material, unlike the amyloid, does not give the metachromatic staining reactions with methyleneviolet or iodine.

  • This is usually much clearer and more hyaline than the general cytoplasm.

  • Chromulina is uniciliate, and is contained in a hyaline capsule.

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HHYHYA

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