interdigitate

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These cells interdigitate loosely with eachother and are in direct contact with the articular cavity in the absence of a basal membrane.

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  1. To insert between the fingers; interweave like the joined fingers of the two hands. [Rare.]
  2. To be interwoven; commingle like interlocked fingers. The groups of characters that are essential to the true definition of a plant and animal interdigitate, so to speak, in that low department of the organic world from which the two great branches rise and diverge. Owen.
  3. In anatomy, specifically, to interpose finger-like processes or digitations between similar processes of another part, as one muscle may do to another; inosculate by means of reciprocal serrations: followed by with. Thus, the human serratus magnus muscle interdigitates by several of its serrations with similar processes of the external oblique muscle of the abdomen. In certain species of Mustelus … a rudimentary placenta is formed, the vascular walls of the umbilical sac becoming plaited, and interdigitating with similar folds of the wall of the uterus. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 120.

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  • I mean, what I found very useful with regards to GEM OS2 is that it really was a substance that could interdigitate and get into every crevice as far as the fusion surface area was concerned, but not obstruct or prevent the biological surface, which is the bleeding bone from interacting with one another.
  • These cells interdigitate loosely with eachother and are in direct contact with the articular cavity in the absence of a basal membrane. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • In his view, "Science and religion do not glower at each other … [but] interdigitate in patterns of complex fingering, and at every fractal scale of self-similarity." —  Metacentricities
  • In this view-a tip of the hat to Stephen Jay Gould's "non-overlapping magisteria" principle-intellectual schizophrenia is nowhere to be found because it offers a unified synthesis of science and faith, to wit, that science and faith offer answers to questions asked within their respective domains-domains which interdigitate but don't overlap.
  • Then, if the occasion is too formal for unrestrained shrieks, they silently interdigitate.) "That is a Scottish expression," said Robin, smiling upon us. —  The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
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