The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vitreous \Vit"re*ous\, a. [L. vitreous, from vitrum glass; perhaps akin to videre to see (see Vision). Cf. Varnish.]
Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.
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Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity.
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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) vitreous humour
WordNet
n. the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball [syn: vitreous humor, vitreous humour]
Wikipedia
The vitreous body is the clear gel that fills the space between the lens and the retina of the eyeball of humans and other vertebrates. It is often referred to as the vitreous humour or simply "the vitreous".
Usage examples of "vitreous body".
My eyes took a little time to grow accustomed to this absolute darkness for, though the delicate apparatus of cornea and aqueous humour and crystalline lens and vitreous body and optic nerve and retina had all been reversed when I gave birth to my mirror self through the mediation of the looking-glass, yet my sensibility remained as it had been.