VITREOUS

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1894 · p. 33

adj. Vi2t'rea-u . Lat., vitreus, vitrosus (from vitrum, gla ). Fr., vitreux, vitre. Ger., glasig, glasern. Gla y, resembling gla ; as a n. (Lat., vitreum), the corpus vitreum. Primordial v. The embryonic v. It differs mainly from the v. of extra-uterine life in having many parablastic elements. [F.] [s. 720]