Definitions for colloid

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colloid col·loid

Spelling: [kol-oid]

IPA: /ˈkɒl ɔɪd/

Colloid is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in colloid (cdilloo).

Definitions for colloid

noun

1. Physical Chemistry. 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 surface area. The particles can be large molecules like proteins, or solid, liquid, or gaseous aggregates and they remain dispersed indefinitely. Compare aerosol, emulsion, gel, sol4 , suspension.
2. Medicine/Medical. a colloidal substance in the body, as a stored secretion or a cyst.

adjective

1. Physical Chemistry. colloidal.

Origin of colloid

1840-50; Greek kóll(a) glue + -oid

Examples for colloid

Then the Sun rises and through the colloid strikes out our lamps.

colloid metamorphosis may take place in all forms of gastric cancer, but it is particularly common in cylindrical epithelioma.

All of the coats of the stomach are converted into the colloid growth.

colloid cancer may originate in the peritoneum unconnected with any glandular structures.

The forms of cancer which occur primarily in the stomach are scirrhous, medullary, colloid, and cylindrical epithelial cancer.

The muscles sometimes undergo the fatty degeneration, and the mucous glands both fatty and colloid degeneration.

Captain Purnall wrenches open the colloid to talk with him man to man.

Yet another phenomenon of colloid chemistry is concerned, viz.

Sometimes they are translucent, as if filled with colloid material, probably retained and degenerated secretion.

"It would have to be a colloid, too, capable of suspension in the atmosphere," said Ken.