Vitreous

What do we mean by vitreous?

Of, relating to, resembling, or having the nature of glass; glassy. adjective

Obtained or made from glass. adjective

Of or relating to the vitreous humor. adjective

The vitreous humor. noun

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from glass; resembling glass.

Consisting of glass: as, a vitreous substance.

Resembling glass in some respects; glassy: thus, an object may be vitreous in its hardness, in its gloss, in its structure, etc.

The vitreous body of the eye. noun

Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy. adjective

Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass. adjective

The vitreous humor. See the Note under Eye. adjective

The kind of electricity excited by rubbing glass with certain substances, as silk; positive electricity; -- opposed to resinous, or negative, electricity. adjective

See the Note under Eye. adjective

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. adjective

Of, or resembling glass; glassy adjective

Of, or relating to the vitreous humor of the eye adjective

Having a shiny nonporous surface adjective

Of a semi-crystalline substance where the atoms exhibit short-range order, but without the long-range order of a crystal adjective

Positive (of electric charge) adjective

The vitreous humor. noun

(by elision) The vitreous humor.

Words that are spelled similarly to vitreous:
vitreous, citreous, piteous, vitious, citrous, nitrous, vitaceous, vireos, vitreum, vitreo, vitriols.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word vitreous:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe vitreous:
primary, hyperplastic, persistent, luster, anterior, posterior, lustre, cortical, secondary, liquid, fluid, normal, peripheral, central, clear, detached, overlying, liquefied, formed, opaque, prolapsed, tertiary, residual, solid, bovine, hazy, artificial, cloudy, adjacent, adherent, fresh, primitive, transparent, condensed, inferior, embryonic, liquified, incarcerated, healthy, rabbit, diseased, empty, avascular, definitive, degenerate, intact, loose, dense, degenerated, gelatinous, mammalian, abnormal, granular, ocular, turbid, viscid, gray, infected, muddy, herniated, hemorrhagic, collapsed, donor, abnormally, fracture, opacified, vascular, reconstituted, sterile, filled, bulging, frozen, compact, adjective.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective vitreous:
floaters, humor, body, hemorrhage, cavity, humour, detachment, silica, base, opacities, loss, surgery, chamber, gel, traction, luster, haemorrhage, lustre, face, hemorrhages, electricity, enamel, china, state, fluid, cortex, cells, mass, membrane, material, substance, surface, enamels, strands, carbon, prolapse, membranes, changes, haze, fibers, materials, space, humors, cutter, glaze, paste, fracture, bodies, degeneration, opacity, inflammation, ware, pressure, layer, volume, substances, bands, appearance, coating, humours, separation, rocks, incarceration, fluorophotometry, fibrils, reaction, haemorrhages, phase, ice, selenium, retraction, seeding, biopsy, liquefaction, glass, quartz, aspiration, enamelling, lava, syndrome, samples, tile, kernels, abscess, ore, tap, sio2, matrix, contraction, coatings, replacement, opacification, collagen, substitute, retina, fig.

Words that sound like vitreous:
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