Definition of "hyaloid" [hy•a•loid]

• Glassy or transparent in appearance; hyaline. (adjective)

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• "Its outer surface is in contact with the choroid; its inner with the hyaloid membrane of the vitreous body."
• "The artery immediately bifurcates into an upper and a lower branch, and each of these again divides into a medial or nasal and a lateral or temporal branch, which at first run between the hyaloid membrane and the nervous layer; but they soon enter the latter, and pass forward, dividing dichotomously."
• "By the sixth month all the vessels of the capsule are atrophied except the hyaloid artery, which disappears during the ninth month; the position of this artery is indicated in the adult by the hyaloid canal, which reaches from the optic disk to the posterior surface of the lens."