Vitreous is an English word with synonyms like glazed or glassy. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Vitreous in a sentence
Vitreous meaning
- Of or resembling glass; glassy.
- Of or relating to the vitreous humor of the eye.
- Having a shiny nonporous surface.
Synonyms of Vitreous
Using Vitreous
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or resembling glass; glassy. | Of or relating to the vitreous humor of the eye. | Having a shiny nonporous surface.
- Useful related words include: liquid body substance, glazed, vitrified, glassy.
- In the example corpus, vitreous often appears in combinations such as: the vitreous, and vitreous, vitreous humor.
Context around Vitreous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vitreous
- In this selection, "vitreous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cloudy, black, humor, gel and skyscraper stand out and add context to how "vitreous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and a vitreous to pearly and disrupting the vitreous humor the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vitreous" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vitreous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It involves removing the cloudy vitreous and replacing it with a saline solution. (13 words)
It is brittle with an uneven fracture and a vitreous to pearly luster. (13 words)
Vitreous humor The clear jelly (gel) that fills the center of the eye. (13 words)
When rapidly melted, it forms the black, vitreous form, usually sold commercially as beads. citation The structure of black selenium is irregular and complex and consists of polymeric rings with up to 1000 atoms per ring. (36 words)
The lack of oxygen in the retina causes fragile, new, blood vessels to grow along the retina and in the clear, gel-like vitreous humour that fills the inside of the eye. (32 words)
When injected in the vitreous cavity, it decreases the macular edema (thickening of the retina at the macula) caused due to diabetic maculopathy, and results in an increase in visual acuity. (31 words)
Example sentences (17)
It could be that you have a retraction of the vitreous gel in the rear chamber of the eye, or there’s some other cause of the symptoms.
An apartment on the 85th floor of One57, the vitreous skyscraper in midtown, sold for $53.97 million.
Bellmore, is a self-taught jeweler with years of experience working with fine metals, dichroic glass and vitreous enamels.
Other possible complications are disrupting the vitreous humor – the clear, gel-like substance that fills the eye between the lens and the retina.
Formation from a supercooled liquid main In physics, the standard definition of a glass (or vitreous solid) is a solid formed by rapid melt quenching.
Franklin proposed that "vitreous" and "resinous" electricity were not different types of " electrical fluid " (as electricity was called then), but the same electrical fluid under different pressures.
It has a defining Mohs hardness of 3, a specific gravity of 2.71, and its luster is vitreous in crystallized varieties.
It involves removing the cloudy vitreous and replacing it with a saline solution.
It is brittle with an uneven fracture and a vitreous to pearly luster.
Its hardness is 8, its specific gravity is 3.5–4.1, and it is transparent to opaque with a vitreous to dull luster.
The lack of oxygen in the retina causes fragile, new, blood vessels to grow along the retina and in the clear, gel-like vitreous humour that fills the inside of the eye.
This organ is extremely rich in blood vessels and is thought to supply nutrition and oxygen to the bird retina by diffusion through the vitreous body.
Typical rosin is a transparent or translucent mass, with a vitreous fracture and a faintly yellow or brown colour, non-odorous or having only a slight turpentine odor and taste.
Vitreous humor The clear jelly (gel) that fills the center of the eye.
Vitreous solders retain their amorphous structure during remelting, can be reworked repeatedly, and are relatively transparent.
When injected in the vitreous cavity, it decreases the macular edema (thickening of the retina at the macula) caused due to diabetic maculopathy, and results in an increase in visual acuity.
When rapidly melted, it forms the black, vitreous form, usually sold commercially as beads. citation The structure of black selenium is irregular and complex and consists of polymeric rings with up to 1000 atoms per ring.
Common combinations with vitreous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: