Colloid

(kol'-oid). I. A non-crystallizable and generally insoluble organic substance. See 2. A mobile pathologic material, jelly-like, firmer than mucus, and differing in its reactions from albumin and from lardacein. 3. Having the nature of glue. 4. In chemistry, amorphous and non-crystalline. C. Cancer. See Cancer . C. Degeneration of the Skin, a rare disease, occurring chiefly on the jper part of the face, in the form of small, glistening, is lucent, flattish elevations, and yielding by presa small, jelly-like ma . C. Milium. See Miluna (kol-o'-mah). A cystic tumor containing a gelatin i form, orphous, and non-vascular substance, nema ikol-o-ne'-mah. Myxoma, or myxo sarcoma. -urn. The neck; especially the terior part of the neck. C. distortum. Synonym Torticollis.