NOUN
- the transparent membrane enveloping the vitreous humor of the eye and separating it from the retina
ADJECTIVE
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resembling glass in transparency or translucency
the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline
How To Use hyaloid In A Sentence
- It fills the concavity of the retina, and is hollowed in front, forming a deep concavity, the hyaloid fossa, for the reception of the lens. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 2. The Refracting Media
- The lips of the choroidal fissure, containing the hyaloid vessels, are fused or nearly so.
- By the sixth month all the vessels of the capsule are atrophied except the hyaloid artery, which disappears during the ninth month; the position of this artery is indicated in the adult by the hyaloid canal, which reaches from the optic disk to the posterior surface of the lens. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. The Organ of Sight
- The hyaloid vasculature is a transient embryonic vascular bed which is complete at birth in mammals and regresses contemporaneously with the formation of the retinal vasculature.
- Some floaters are remnants of the hyaloid artery, which usually disintegrates before birth.
- Its outer surface is in contact with the choroid; its inner with the hyaloid membrane of the vitreous body. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 1. The Tunics of the Eye
- The wall of Cloquet's canal consists of multifenestrated sheaths, previously basal lamina of hyaloid artery.
- The hyaloid artery lies in the hyaloid canal, or canal of Cloquet, and is a branch of the central artery of the retina, or one of its retinal distribution.
- It rests, behind, in the hyaloid fossa in the forepart of the vitreous body; in front, it is in contact with the free border of the iris, but recedes from it at the circumference, thus forming the posterior chamber of the eye; it is retained in its position chiefly by the suspensory ligament of the lens, already described. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 2. The Refracting Media
- It is transparent, of the consistence of thin jelly, and is composed of an albuminous fluid enclosed in a delicate transparent membrane, the hyaloid membrane. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 2. The Refracting Media