Crossword-Solution: HYALOID
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hyaloid | a. | Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HYALOID | anagram | HOLIDAY, HYOIDAL |
We have 4 clues for the answer “HYALOID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MEMBRANE enveloping the vitreous humour of the eye | 1 answer |
| THIN transparent membrane enveloping vitreous humour of the eye | 1 answer |
| TRANSPARENT membrane enveloping vitreous humour of the eye | 1 answer |
| glassy | 30 answers |
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Sentences with HYALOID (5)
Head-skeleton of a primitive fish, n nasal pit, eth cribriform bone region, orb orbit of eye, la wall of auscultory labyrinth, occ occipital region of primitive skull, cv vertebral column, a fore, bc hind-lip cartilage, o primitive upper jaw (palato-quadratum), u primitive lower jaw, II hyaloid bone, III to VIII first to sixth branchial arches.
They are like two balls of fire, and there is a peculiar transparency of the hyaloid membrane, or injection of that of the retina.
The ligament of the lens is the thickened anterior part of the hyaloid membrane which surrounds the vitreous body; it is closely connected to the iris at the ora serrata, and then splits into two layers, of which the anterior is the thicker and blends with the anterior part of the elastic capsule of the lens, so that, when its attachment to the ora serrata is drawn forward by the ciliary muscle, the lens, by its own elasticity, increases its convexity.
Between the anterior and posterior splitting of the hyaloid membrane is a circular lymph space surrounding the margin of the lens known as the _canal of Petit_ (fig.
From the centre of the optic disk to the posterior pole of the lens a lymph canal formed by a tube of the hyaloid membrane stretches through the centre of the vitreous body; this is the _canal of Stilling_, which in the embryo transmitted the hyaloid artery to the lens.