Definition of Hialine
Hy"a*line (?), a. [L. hyalinus,
Gr. &?;, fr. "y`alos glass: cf. F. hyalin.]
Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like
crystal. "Hyaline spaces." Carpenter.
Hy"a*line, n. 1. A
poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. "The clear
hyaline, the glassy sea." Milton.
Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm
hyaline. Mrs. Browning.
2. (Biol.) The pellucid substance,
present in cells in process of development, from which, according to
some embryologists, the cell nucleus originates.
3. (Physiol. Chem.) The main
constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which,
by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of
alcoholic fermentation. Gamgee.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
*1974: They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely. — Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
- Pertaining to the substance hyaline.
- Anything glassy, translucent or transparent.
- (Zoology, Anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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