vitreous
pronunciation
How to pronounce vitreous in British English:
UK [ˈvɪtriəs]
How to pronounce vitreous in American English:
US [ˈvɪtriəs]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye
- relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass
- (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it
Word Origin
- vitreous
- vitreous: [17] Latin vitrum meant ‘glass’ (it may be the same word as vitrum ‘woad, plant producing blue dye’, the link being the bluishgreen colour of glass, and it might even be distantly related to English woad itself). From it was derived vitreus ‘clear, transparent’, which gave English vitreous. The sulphates of various metals have a glassy appearance, and so in medieval Latin the term vitriolum (a derivative of vitrum) was applied to them – whence English vitriol [14].=> vitriol
- vitreous (adj.)
- early 15c., "glasslike," from Latin vitreus "of glass, glassy," from vitrum "glass," which perhaps was so called for its color (compare vitrium "woad"). Vitreous humor attested from 1660s.
Example
- 1. Disorders of vitreous body and globe in diseases classified elsewhere .
- 2. Diagnostic imaging of autologous lashes within vitreous body of rabbit .
- 3. Tox and vitreous lytes are all normal .
- 4. Avastin and long acting gas for early vitreous clear-up after vitrectomy for active diabetic proliferation .
- 5. Although favorable visual function was briefly maintained postoperatively , severe vitreous hemorrhage developed in his left eye , necessitating vitrectomy .