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vitreous body
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Vitreous body
(gcide) | Vitreous \Vit"re*ous\, a. [L. vitreous, from vitrum glass;
perhaps akin to videre to see (see Vision). Cf. Varnish.]
1. Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous
rocks.
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2. Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as,
vitreous electricity.
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Vitreous body (Anat.), the vitreous humor. See the Note
under Eye.
Vitreous electricity (Elec.), the kind of electricity
excited by rubbing glass with certain substances, as silk;
positive electricity; -- opposed to resinous, or negative,
electricity.
Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See the Note under Eye.
Vitreous sponge (Zool.), any one of numerous species of
siliceous sponges having, often fibrous, glassy spicules
which are normally six-rayed; a hexactinellid sponge. See
Venus's basket, under Venus.
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vitreous body
(wn) | vitreous body
n 1: the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the
posterior chamber of the eyeball [syn: vitreous humor,
vitreous humour, vitreous body] |
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