HYALINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hyaline mean? 

• HYALINE (noun)
  The noun HYALINE has 1 sense:

1. a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions

  Familiarity information: HYALINE used as a noun is very rare.

• HYALINE (adjective)
  The adjective HYALINE has 1 sense:

1. resembling glass in transparency or translucency

  Familiarity information: HYALINE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYALINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

hyalin; hyaline

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)

• HYALINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling glass in transparency or translucency

Synonyms:

hyaline; hyaloid

Context example:

the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline

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 benign neoplasm composed of hyaline cartilage arising from the mediastinum.

(Mediastinal Chondroma, NCI Thesaurus)

A thin hyaline membrane between the chief part of the sclera and the endothelial layer of the cornea.

(Descemet's Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign neoplasm composed of hyaline cartilage arising from the lung.

(Lung Chondroma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of chondrocytes and is composed of hyaline cartilage.

(Chondromatosis, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a well circumscribed tumor characterized by the presence of chondrocytes, a lobulated hyaline cartilage growth pattern, and in some cases calcification.

(Extraskeletal Chondroma, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the amount of hyaline casts present in a urine sample.

(Hyaline Cast Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the deposition of extracellular hyaline material in the skin, soft tissues and bones.

(Juvenile Hyaline Fibromatosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Replacement of tissue stromal elements by hyaline material.

(Hyalinized Stroma Formation, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the hyaline casts present in a biological specimen.

(Hyaline Cast Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A benign well circumscribed neoplasm arising from the hyaline cartilage in soft tissue or bone.

(Chondroma, NCI Thesaurus)