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vitreum

American  
[vi-tree-uhm] / ˈvɪ tri əm /

adjective

  1. (in prescriptions) glass.


Etymology

Origin of vitreum

< Latin, noun use of neuter of vitreus vitreous

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The greater part of it is taken up with a semi-fluid, transparent gelatinous substance, the corpus vitreum.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

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