How to Use vitreous in a Sentence

vitreous

adjective
  • The sink is made of durable vitreous china and features an overflow drain.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2022
  • The corners draw samples of blood, urine, bile and vitreous from the eyes of the deceased.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Collect blood and vitreous fluid, as well as hair and tissue samples.
    — Peter Cummings, Scientific American, 3 June 2025
  • There is a thin membrane that separates the vitreous from the retina, and this may become detached.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The result is a design made up of thick, transparent panes of enamel that reflect light and shadows in a unique, vitreous glow.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Ironstone is a vitreous type of ceramic fired at high temperatures to strengthen it.
    — oregonlive, 2 June 2020
  • In vitrectomy, the surgeon removes the vitreous, clear gel from the eye and replaces it with a gas or oil bubble to help push the retina back in place.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The back of the eye contains a clear, gel-like substance known as the vitreous, which adheres to the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye called the retina.
    — Cathy Nelson, Health, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The development and progression of cataracts and vision loss are common side effects of vitreous surgery.
    — Irene Wright, Dallas News, 15 June 2022
  • Packages of toes, bones, vomit, and vitreous fluid from a victim’s eyeball aren’t uncommon.
    — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Finally, in the normally clear fluid that filled the eye itself, a thick gel called the vitreous, Rodriguez could see tiny white specks.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 16 June 2021
  • Very few modern toilets are actually constructed from porcelain, but they are made from vitreous china.
    — Michael Pollick, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Earlier this week, doctors in Tampa found and removed a pork tapeworm that nestled into the vitreous chamber of a man’s eye.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Most pedestal sinks in a affordable price range will be made of vitreous china, a durable, shiny, corrosion-resistant material that is easy to clean.
    — Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The vitreous cuttlefish and sea slugs evoke an underwater world that few people encounter directly even today.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2016
  • The surgical procedure involves first temporarily removing the vitreous gel that fills the eye to gain access to the retina.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Cloisonné is defined as a decorative technique that uses thin wire to separate varying shades of vitreous enamel to create a design.
    — Nancy Olson, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • If floaters become bothersome or affect visual function, vitrectomy surgery to remove the vitreous and replace it with saline can be an option, Do said.
    — Cathy Nelson, Health, 13 Mar. 2026
  • For ocular infections, the cysts may float within the vitreous chamber of the eye, causing pain, blurry vision, retinal detachment and even blindness.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2015
  • For the autopsy, examiners ordered three toxicology tests on Craig — blood, urine and vitreous fluid of the eye.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2017
  • To gouge out the parasitic pillager, the doctors performed a pars plana vitrectomy—a procedure that involves sucking out some of the jelly-like vitreous inside the eye.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
  • At that time, Saint-Gobain, which produced the vitreous bricks, couldn’t even guarantee that the still-new building material was weatherproof.
    — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Its leading technology is MCO-010, a type of eye injection that goes into the liquid part of the eye, or the vitreous.
    — Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Floaters are most common in people over age 50 because that’s when the vitreous gel typically begins to degenerate, a process called vitreous syneresis, Starr said.
    — Cathy Nelson, Health, 13 Mar. 2026
  • And the microneedles were nearly invisible since HA is largely transparent—almost exactly as transparent as the cornea and vitreous fluid in the eye, in fact.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2018
  • However, these specks in the field of vision, which may appear as cobwebs, spots, squiggly lines, or threads, can sometimes be caused by other severe eye conditions, such as retinal detachment, uveitis, or vitreous detachment.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Health, 30 Mar. 2024
  • One of the main causes of floaters is posterior vitreous detachment, or PVD, which occurs when the shrinking vitreous gel pulls away from the retina entirely.
    — Cathy Nelson, Health, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices of patent frangibility are advised to refrain from catapulting petro us projectiles.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Until the autopsy is performed, and samples of blood, urine and vitreous fluid from the eyeball are sent by FedEx to a laboratory in Indiana, the official cause of death remains unknown.
    — Mike Clary, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Designers look towards fine arts, finding inspiration in everything from famous paintings, mosaic tiles, Roman micro mosaics to ceramics and different types of vitreous glass enamel.
    — Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023

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