'Vitreous body' definitions:
Definition of 'vitreous body'
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noun
The clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball [syn: vitreous humor, vitreous humour, vitreous body]
Definition of 'Vitreous body'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]