vitreous

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Some new therapies just inject a virus into the vitreous.

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of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye; "the vitreous chamber"

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adjective

of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye; "the vitreous chamber"

adjective

relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass; "vitreous rocks"; "vitreous silica"

adjective

(of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for vitreous.

adjective

of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye; "the vitreous chamber"

adjective

relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass; "vitreous rocks"; "vitreous silica"

adjective

(of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"

Example sentences

Some new therapies just inject a virus into the vitreous.

The samples themselves are plunge frozen into vitreous ice using liquid ethane, so they won't move much on their own.

So vitreous fluid is opaque to 1550nm light and will block these new powerful lasers from damaging the retina.

Specifically, the lens can be misshaped and the vitreous can have impurities that lead to refraction of light.

The vitreous humor varies less but still varies pretty significantly.

> what to do with things like teeth,False teeth have been available for quite a while now, not to mention implants.> the vitreous humor,Replace the eye with a camera?

What effect do these lasers have long term on the retina, the lens, and the vitreous humor of the eye?I did not see any part of the article address these issues.

The first warning you receive that it's reflecting into your eye is blood seeping into the vitreous humor from your retina's capillaries.

I also get occasional mild flashes, which are probably caused by little changes in pressure within vitreous regions close to my retina.

That means lens defects start to become more apparent and the probability the light crosses a part with inhomogeneities in the vitreous part becomes larger.

What about people that have recently had retinal detachment surgery, and had the vitreous fluid replaced with an oil, is this replacement oil also opaque to 1550nm?

After an extremely stressful half at work, I developed heart palpitations, gastritis, insomnia, and a very distinct vitreous floater.

Minor eye issues would definitely cause me great stress - I developed a somewhat prominent vitreous floater three years ago and it still sometimes bothers me intensely.

"Cherenkov radiation could also be responsible for the "blue flash" experienced in an excursion due to the intersection of particles with the vitreous humour within the eyeballs of those in the presence of the criticality.

This does make one of my fears more imminent, which is what to do with things like teeth, the vitreous humor, extant arthritic damage, and other systems and organs, the effects of aging for which the body has more or less lost or never had cells in place that can be recruited for repair.

> what to do with things like teeth, the vitreous humor, extant arthritic damage, and other systems and organs, the effects of aging for which the body has more or less lost or never had cells in place that can be recruited for repairSounds like we’ll have a healthy industry in healthcare and research for lifetimes to come.