Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A netlike formation or structure; a network.
- noun Zoology The second compartment of the stomach of ruminant mammals, lined with a membrane having honeycombed ridges.
- noun A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Dorado and Horologium.
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- noun A
network - noun A
pattern ofinterconnected objects. - noun zoology : The second
stomach in acow or otherruminant
Etymologies
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Examples
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And connected with it near to the entry of the oesophagus is what from its appearance is termed the ‘reticulum’ (or honeycomb bag); for outside it is like the stomach, but inside it resembles a netted cap; and the reticulum is a great deal smaller than the stomach.
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The reticulum is the smallest, with a capacity of about one-half gallon.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Its structure is that of an ordinary cell-nucleus, viz., it consists of a reticulum or karyomitome, the meshes of which are filled with karyoplasm, while connected with, or imbedded in, the reticulum are a number of chromatin masses or chromosomes, which may present the appearance of a skein or may assume the form of rods or loops.
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From this bag (the paunch) in the act of rumination a certain portion of the food is ejected into the second chamber, which is termed the reticulum (i.e. a little net) from the peculiar arrangement of its inner or mucous surface, which is lined with a network of shallow hexagonal cells.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The researchers also looked at the endoplasmic reticulum, which is where the folding process of proteins occurs in a cell.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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The researchers also looked at the endoplasmic reticulum, which is where the folding process of proteins occurs in a cell.
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The researchers also looked at the endoplasmic reticulum, which is where the folding process of proteins occurs in a cell.
D Mag - News 2010
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These two proteins reside in the endoplasmic reticulum, which is a major site of protein synthesis.
unknown title 2009
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These two proteins reside in the endoplasmic reticulum, which is a major site of protein synthesis.
unknown title 2009
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These two proteins reside in the endoplasmic reticulum, which is a major site of protein synthesis.
unknown title 2009
qubex commented on the word reticulum
In Neal Stephenson's Anathem, a syndev reticulum is a computer network.
November 8, 2008