colloid substance
1colloid substance — a jelly like material formed in colloid degeneration …
2Colloid — Col loid, n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do;… …
3colloid — [käl′oid΄] n. [< Gr kolla, glue + OID; coined by T. Graham (1805 69), Scot chemist] 1. a) a solid, liquid, or gaseous substance made up of very small, insoluble particles (as single large molecules or masses of smaller molecules) that remain… …
4colloid — ► NOUN 1) a homogeneous substance consisting of submicroscopic particles of one substance dispersed in another, as in an emulsion or gel. 2) a gelatinous substance. DERIVATIVES colloidal adjective. ORIGIN from Greek kolla glue …
5Colloid — Milk is an emulsified colloid of liquid butterfat globules dispersed within a water based solution. A colloid is a substance microscopically dispersed evenly throughout another substance.[1] A colloidal system consists of two separate phases: a… …
6colloid — 1. Aggregates of atoms or molecules in a finely divided state (submicroscopic), dispersed in a gaseous, liquid, or solid medium, and resisting sedimentation, diffusion, and filtration, thus differing from precipitates. SEE ALSO: hydrocolloid …
7colloid — noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary coll + oid Date: circa 1852 1. a gelatinous or mucinous substance found normally in the thyroid and also in diseased tissue 2. a. a substance that consists of particles dispersed …
8colloid — /kol oyd/, n. 1. Physical Chem. a substance made up of a system of particles with linear dimensions in the range of about 10 7 to 5 × 10 5 cm dispersed in a continuous gaseous, liquid, or solid medium whose properties depend on the large specific …
9colloid chemistry — noun 1. : the branch of chemistry that deals with colloids and colloidal phenomena 2. : the branch of chemistry that deals with surface and large molecular particles * * * the study of colloids. * * * colloid chemistry, the study of particles of… …
10colloid — [ kɒlɔɪd] noun a homogeneous non crystalline substance consisting of large molecules or ultramicroscopic particles of one substance dispersed in a second substance, as in gels, sols, and emulsions. ↘Anatomy & Medicine a substance of gelatinous… …
