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HYALINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions
Synonyms:
hyalin; hyaline
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hyaline" is a kind of...):
translucent substance; transparent substance (a material having the property of admitting light diffusely; a partly transparent material)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hyaline"):
keratohyalin (hyaline in the large granules of the stratum granulosum)
Derivation:
hyaline (resembling glass in transparency or translucency)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling glass in transparency or translucency
Example:
the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline
Synonyms:
hyaline; hyaloid
Classified under:
Similar:
clear (allowing light to pass through)
Derivation:
hyaline (a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions)
Context examples:
A rare usually low grade malignant mesenchymal neoplasm characterized by the presence of hyaline cartilage and clear cells.
(Clear Cell Chondrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A hyaline cartilage in the form of irregular rings in the larger bronchi that changes to small plates and islands in the smaller bronchi.
(Bronchus Cartilage, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign neoplasm composed of hyaline cartilage arising from the periosteum of the bone.
(Periosteal Chondroma, NCI Thesaurus)
In the hyaline vascular type there are hyalinized vessels present in the lymphoid follicles.
(Angiofollicular Lymphoid Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
Thickening of the walls of small arteries or arterioles due to cell proliferation or hyaline deposition.
(Arteriolosclerosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The deposition of hyaline material in the wall of the arterioles.
(Hyaline Arteriolosclerosis, NCI Thesaurus)
A process of tissue replacement where the tissue is being replaced by hyaline or the tissue has degenerated to hyaline.
(Hyalinization, NCI Thesaurus)
It is caused by deposition of hyaline material in the wall or concentric smooth muscle wall hypertrophy.
(Arteriolosclerosis, NCI Thesaurus)
Histologically it is characterized by a biphasic pattern with compacted bipolar cells associated with Rosenthal fibers and multipolar cells associated with microcysts and eosinophilic bodies/hyaline droplets.
(Pilocytic Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
There are three types of cartilage; namely elastic, hyaline, and fibrocartilage.
(Cartilage, NCI Thesaurus)
