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HYALIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hyalin mean?
• HYALIN (noun)
The noun HYALIN has 1 sense:
1. a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions
Familiarity information: HYALIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
hyalin; hyaline
Hypernyms ("hyalin" is a kind of...):
translucent substance; transparent substance (a material having the property of admitting light diffusely; a partly transparent material)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hyalin"):
keratohyalin (hyaline in the large granules of the stratum granulosum)
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