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Definition of Hyaloid membrane
1. Noun. The transparent membrane enveloping the vitreous humor of the eye and separating it from the retina.
Medical Definition of Hyaloid membrane
1. A transparent homogeneous acellular layer between the substantia propria and the endothelial layer of the cornea; considered to be a highly developed basement membrane. Synonym: lamina limitans posterior corneae, membrana vitrea, Descemet's membrane, Duddell's membrane, entocornea, hyaloid membrane, lamina elastica posterior, limiting layers of cornea, membrana hyaloidea, posterior elastic layer, tunica vitrea, vitreous membrane. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyaloid Membrane
Literary usage of Hyaloid membrane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"On making a vertical section of the conical tion of the retina, Fanizza found
within it the hyaloid membrane, corrugated, ..."
2. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"The hyaloid membrane encloses the whole of the vitreous humor, that portion on its
... Immediately beneath the hyaloid membrane are found small, granular, ..."
3. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1877)
"It is more or less firmly attached to the hyaloid membrane. ... The hyaloid
membrane appears long before the vitreous humour as a delicate basement membrane ..."
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