Amyloid Synonyms

Quite likely the amyloid may be a combination of the substance with a proteid.

Some organs are subject to enlargement from deposition within them of a foreign substance (amyloid, fat, &c.).

The hyaline material, unlike the amyloid, does not give the metachromatic staining reactions with methyleneviolet or iodine.

The wax-like or amyloid substance has a certain resemblance to the colloid, mucoid and hyaline.

The name "amyloid " was applied to it by Virchow on account of the blue reaction which it gives occasionally with iodine and sulphuric acid, resembling that given with vegetable cellulose.