vitreous humor

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vitreous humor - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Humor \Hu"mor\, n. [OE. humour, OF. humor, umor, F. humeur, L.
     humor, umor, moisture, fluid, fr. humere, umere, to be moist.
     See Humid.] [Written also humour.]
     1. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal
        bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the
        eye, etc.
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     Note: The ancient physicians believed that there were four
           humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and
           black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion
           of which the temperament and health depended.
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     2. (Med.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often
        causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors."
        --Sir W. Temple.
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     3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly
        supposed to depend on the character or combination of the
        fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good
        humor; ill humor.
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              Examine how your humor is inclined,
              And which the ruling passion of your mind.
                                                    --Roscommon.
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              A prince of a pleasant humor.         --Bacon.
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              I like not the humor of lying.        --Shak.
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     4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices;
        freaks; vagaries; whims.
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              Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and
              discretion? Has he not humors to be endured?
                                                    --South.
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     5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an
        incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite
        laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations;
        a playful fancy; facetiousness.
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              For thy sake I admit
              That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
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              A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the
              perplexities of mine host.            --W. Irving.
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     Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or Crystalline lens,
     Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See Eye.
  
     Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant
        frame of mind.
  
     Syn: Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood;
          frame; whim; fancy; caprice. See Wit.
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  Vitreous \Vit"re*ous\, a. [L. vitreous, from vitrum glass;
     perhaps akin to videre to see (see Vision). Cf. Varnish.]
     1. Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous
        rocks.
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     2. Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as,
        vitreous electricity.
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     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 (Zool.), 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.
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vitreous humor - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  vitreous humor
      n 1: the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the
           posterior chamber of the eyeball [syn: vitreous humor,
           vitreous humour, vitreous body]