Definition of Hydatoid

1. a. Resembling water; watery; aqueous; hyaloid.

Definition of Hydatoid

1. Adjective. watery, aqueous ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete anatomy) aqueous humour ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hydatoid

1. watery [adj] - See also: watery

Medical Definition of Hydatoid

1. Resembling water; watery; aqueous; hyaloid. Origin: Gr. "ydwr, "ydatos, water. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydatoid

hydatid pregnancy
hydatid rash
hydatid resonance
hydatid sand
hydatid thrill
hydatidiform
hydatidoma
hydatidosis
hydatidostomy
hydatids
hydatiform
hydatiform mole: types
hydatoid (current term)
hydatoscopy
hydergine
hydes
hydnocarpus oil
hydr-
hydracetin
hydrachnid
hydrachnids
hydracid
hydracids
hydracrylic
hydracrylic acid
hydractinian
hydractinians

Literary usage of Hydatoid

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

1. Anaesthesia, Hospitalism, Hermaphroditism, and a Proposal to Stamp Out Small by James Young Simpson (1871)
"... hydatoid bodies that are so very frequently, or indeed constantly, found in the upper part of the broad ligament, and on the fimbriate edges of the ..."

2. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"... Mole, hydatoid. H. tu'm our of mammary irland. Astley Cooper's term for a vesicular tumour of the mammary gland, produced by the distension of the ..."

3. The Critic and the Drama by George Jean Nathan (1922)
"... enjoyed from the work of art might conceivably be of pathological origin, a frem- itus or vibration felt upon percussion of a hydatoid tumour. ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1843)
"The author is quite right in regarding the cases published by Mr Laing of Aberdeen as examples not of cystic or hydatoid disease of the testis, ..."

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