1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 882/1The dental plate consists..of a central mass of coarse osseous substance..and an external sheath of very hard ‘vitro-dentine’.
1870 tr. Stricker'sMan. Histology xv. (N. Syd.Soc. ) 471The central portion consists of vaso-dentine, which is covered with true dentine; external to which again is a thin layer of vitro-dentine. [ of a tooth]
1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2713/2Vitro-type (Photography), a name given to the processes which involve the production of collodion film pictures on glass.
1882 Geikie Text-Bk.Geol. ii. ii. iii. 90Vogelsang has proposed to classify this type in three divisions: 1st, Granophyre,..2nd, Felsophyre,..3rd, Vitrophyre, where the ground-mass is a glassy magna. [ Porphyritic]
1890 Philos. Mag. March 288Among the pyroxenic rocks the most noticeable varieties are the labradorite-audesites, the pyroxene-audesites—of which both ‘trachytoid’ and ‘vitrophyric’ forms occur.
vitro-
word-forming element meaning "glass," from comb. form of Latin vitrum "glass" (see vitreous).
vitro-
— see vitr-
— see vitr-