Definition of Hyalinization

1. Noun. The state of being hyaline or having become hyaline. "The patient's arterioles showed marked hyalinization"

Exact synonyms: Hyalinisation
Generic synonyms: Condition, Status

Medical Definition of Hyalinization

1. The formation of hyalin. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyalinization

hyaline bodies
hyaline bodies of pituitary
hyaline cartilage
hyaline cast
hyaline degeneration
hyaline degeneration of the elastic tissue of the arterial wall
hyaline leukocyte
hyaline membrane disease
hyaline membrane disease of the newborn
hyaline membrane syndrome
hyaline thrombus
hyaline tubercle
hyalines
hyalinisation
hyalinization (current term)
hyalinosis
hyalins
hyalinuria
hyalite
hyalites
hyalitis
hyalo-
hyalobiuronic acid
hyalocapsular ligament
hyaloclastite
hyalocyte
hyalogen
hyalogens
hyalograph

Literary usage of Hyalinization

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"Frequency of differentiation 86 Frequency of lymphocytic infiltration 57 Frequency of fibrosis 75 Frequency of hyalinization 2 Frequency of differentiation ..."

2. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1919)
"The alveolar walls are edematous and in many areas show a hyalinization and are of a ... The capsule shows a slight thickening and hyalinization. ..."

3. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"All of the glomeruli showed some degree of capillary thrombosis, hyalinization and fibrosis. The arteries of all sizes, even to the smallest, including the ..."

4. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1920)
"... it is invariably found that the cells are not closely packed but are separated by large amounts of fibrous stroma with a tendency to hyalinization. ..."

5. Acute Epidemic Encephalitis (lethargic Encephalitis): An Investigation by by Walter Timme (1921)
"The interstitial tissue was increased and contained areas of hyalinization. THE ADRENALS Case I. The capsule was of average thickness. ..."

6. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1917)
"... proliferation and degeneration of the epithelia, hyalinization, atrophy or sclerosis of the Malpighian body, thrombosis of the capillaries of the tuft, ..."

7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Undoubtedly there are other factors such as lymphocytic infiltration, fibrosis, hyalinization, location, encapsulation and perhaps conditions which are as ..."

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