Definition of Hyaline

  • (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.

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