Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The corpus vitreum, vitreous body, or vitreous humor of the eye. See cut under
eye .
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Suggested causes for the collapse of zander Stizostedion lucioperca (L.) populations in northern and central Finland through comparisons with North American walleye, Stizostedion vitreum (Mitchill).
Climate change effects on arctic freshwater fish populations 2009
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Others like the walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) have been moved to stock waterways for sport fishing.
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Chiefly or strictly Piedmont fish species include Notropis alborus, Notropis altipinnis, Fundulus rathbuni, Etheostoma vitreum, and Etheostoma collis (Jenkins and, 1993).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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For so it is expressed in the Scriptures touching the government of God, that this globe, which seemeth to us a dark and shady body, is in the view of God as crystal: Et in conspectu sedis tanquam mare vitreum simile crystallo.
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America (_Stizostedion vitreum_) and the other the zander of Central
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The remaining parts -- the corpus vitreum (with the vascular capsule of the lens), the choroid
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The greater part of it is taken up with a semi-fluid, transparent gelatinous substance, the corpus vitreum.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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But they soon separate, a new structure, the corpus vitreum (gl), growing between them.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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It proceeds from the optic thalami (the second cerebral vesicle) to the eye; penetrates its outer envelopes, and then spreads out like a net between the choroid and the corpus vitreum.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Juxta quod Practicam nobis ad Memoriam ponimus, ut non obliviscamur, ad hunc modum: Recipe Vinum vetustissimum & optimum quod habere poteris, calore saporeque ad placitum, hoc in vas vitreum infundas ut tertiam ejus partem impleat,
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