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Reticulum

noun

(pl. reticula)

A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Hydrus.

Any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels).

The second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant. Synonym: second stomach.

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"Reticulum" Quotes from Famous Books

... an emulsion, and that the observed reticular structure of the cell is due to the intersections of the walls of the minute ultimate globules. But another equally authoritative school of workers holds to the view, first expressed by Frommann and Arnold, that the reticulum is really a system of threads, which constitute the most important basis of the cell structure. It is even held that these fibres penetrate the cell walls and connect adjoining cells, so that the entire body is a ...

— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams

... or oval black mark, two such marks on each marginal of first pair; marks on margin of anterior half of carapace having pale orange-yellow borders, marks more posteriorly having indistinct borders or no border; upper surface of carapace having numerous, irregularly arranged black marks on a faint reticulum of pale lines; one or two large oval marks on each lateral scute arranged more or less vertically, other marks on laterals irregular in size and arrangement; central scutes having three to five longitudinally arranged, narrow black marks ...

— A New Subspecies of Slider Turtle (Pseudemys scripta) from Coahuila, Mexico • John M. Legler

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