Reticulum [noun]
Definition of Reticulum:
mesh, web
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Opposite/Antonyms of Reticulum:
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Sentence/Example of Reticulum:
Reticulum, the Net, is a small constellation to the east of Hydrus and Horologium.
The filaments form a reticulum in the meshes of which are contained the other elements.
The reticulum within the fruit is similar to that of the foregoing species.
One portion is apparently identical with the reticulum of the cell substance (Fig. 23, d).
Further, we find that the reticulum within the nucleus is made up of two very different parts.
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.
It is even held that these fibres penetrate the cell walls and connect adjoining cells, so that the entire body is a reticulum.