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reticulum

/ri-tik-yuh-luhm/US // rɪˈtɪk yə ləm //UK // (rɪˈtɪkjʊləm) //

网状结构,网状体,网状物,网状构造

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural re·tic·u·la [ri-tik-yuh-luh] /rɪˈtɪk yə lə/ for 1-3, genitive re·tic·u·li [ri-tik-yuh-lahy] /rɪˈtɪk yəˌlaɪ/ for 4.

    • : a network; any reticulated system or structure.
    • : Anatomy. a network of intercellular fibers in certain tissues.a network of structures in the endoplasm or nucleus of certain cells.
    • : Zoology. the second stomach of ruminating animals, between the rumen and the omasum.
    • : Astronomy. the Net, a southern constellation between Dorado and Hydrus.

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Examples

  • This dish is based on the beautiful white honeycomb tripe, which comes from the second stomach, or the reticulum, of an ox.

  • These structures arise from the mesoblastic reticulum already described Peripheral nervous system.

  • In this way the nerve trunks are developed—by a gathering up, so to speak, of the fibres of the reticulum into bundles.

  • The yolk is contained in the meshes of this reticulum in the manner already described for other ova.

  • Absorption of the membrane of the germinal vesicle and metamorphosis of the germinal spot and nuclear reticulum.

  • It is even held that these fibres penetrate the cell walls and connect adjoining cells, so that the entire body is a reticulum.