| gelatinize | 1. To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate. 2. <photography> To coat, or otherwise treat, with gelatin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| gelatinoid | 1. Pertaining to or characteristic of gelatin. 2. Jelly-like or resembling gelatin. Synonym: gelatinoid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelatinous | 1. Pertaining to or characteristic of gelatin. 2. Jelly-like or resembling gelatin. Synonym: gelatinoid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelatinous ascites | <radiology> Rupture of: ovarian pseudomucinous cystadenoma, appendicial mucocele, mucinous material in peritoneum, with or without diffuse abdominal calcification (12 Dec 1998) |
| gelatinous infiltration | A term sometimes used for the relatively rapidly formed, semisolid, gray or gray-white exudate (chiefly necrotic cells and remnants of tissue, and macrophages) resulting from unusually acute, overwhelming, diffuse tuberculous infection in the lung. Synonym: gelatinous infiltration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelatinous lesion | A small area of oedema in the arterial intima, possibly a precursor of a fibrous plaque. (18 Nov 1997) |
| gelatinous nucleus | The soft fibrocartilage central portion of the intervertebral disk; regarded as a derivative of the notochord. Synonym: gelatinous nucleus, nucleus gelatinosus, vertebral pulp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelatinous polyp | A polyp that consists of delicate, loose, edematous connective tissue, a polypoid myxoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelatinous scleritis | A gelatinous-appearing swelling surrounding the cornea with a tendency to involve the periphery of the cornea. Synonym: gelatinous scleritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelatinous substance | The apical part of the posterior horn (dorsal horn; posterior gray column) of the spinal cord's gray matter, composed largely of very small nerve cells; its gelatinous appearance is due to its very low content of myelinated nerve fibres. Synonym: substantia gelatinosa, Rolando's gelatinous substance, Rolando's substance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelatinous tissue | A type of connective tissue little differentiated beyond the mesenchymal stage; its ground substance of glycoproteins is abundant and contains fine collagenous fibres and fibroblasts; in its most characteristic form, it appears in the umbilical cord as Wharton's jelly. Synonym: gelatinous tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelatinous varix | A lumpy or nodular condition of the umbilical cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelation | <astronomy> The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying. Origin: L. Gelatio a freezing, fr. Gelare to freeze. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gelatum | Synonym: gel. Origin: Mod. L. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelding | A castrated animal; usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male. "They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him." (Wyclif (Acts viii. 38)) Origin: Icel. Gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. Galling gelding, Dan. Gilding eunuch. See Geld. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |