hyaline meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

hyaline

adj

/ˈhaɪəlɪn/ · /ˈhaɪəliːn/

Etymology From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).

Glassy, transparent; amorphous.

And, as below she braids her hyaline hair, / Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air […].1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 117:
They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

Derived terms: fibrohyaline, holohyaline, hyalescence, hyaline cartilage, hyaline degeneration, hyalinelike, hyaline membrane disease, hyalinize, hyalinocyte, hyalinosis, hypohyaline, semihyaline, subhyaline

hyaline

noun

Etymology From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).

Poetic Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.

The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Rhapsody of Life's Progress:

Anatomy, Biology, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences, Zoology A clear translucent substance in tissues.

Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.

where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :