hyalinize
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- hyalinise (UK)
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hyalinize (third-person singular simple present hyalinizes, present participle hyalinizing, simple past and past participle hyalinized)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become hyaline.
- 2005, Rae Langford, June D. Thompson, Mosby's Handbook of Diseases (page 683)
- Tumor growth often outstrips blood supply, causing the tumor to hyalinize. The hyaline tissue may then liquefy and calcify.
- 2005, Rae Langford, June D. Thompson, Mosby's Handbook of Diseases (page 683)