1 Allow an elderly person to eat snacks that are high in nutrition between major meals; such as fruit, almonds, raisins, cottage cheese, or peanut butter, instead of potato chips, sweets, and other types of junk food.
Medical Definition of HYALINIZATION. : the process of becoming hyaline or of undergoing hyaline degeneration; also: the resulting state. the process of becoming hyaline or of undergoing hyaline degeneration; also: the resulting state.
A wide variety of names are commonly used for petrified wood. Fossilized wood is a general term for wood that has been petrified or preserved by other methods of fossilization. Opalized wood is petrified wood that has been replaced by opal, an amorphous form of silica.