— crystalloidal , adj.
/kris"tl oyd'/ , n.
1. a usually crystallizable substance that, when dissolved in a liquid, will diffuse readily through vegetable or animal membranes.
2. Bot. one of certain minute crystallike granules of protein, found in the tissues of various seeds.
adj.
3. resembling a crystal.
4. of the nature of a crystalloid.
[ 1860-65; krystalloeidés. See CRYSTALL-, -OID ]