Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A netlike formation or structure; a network.
- n. Zoology The second compartment of the stomach of ruminant mammals, lined with a membrane having honeycombed ridges.
- n. A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Dorado and Horologium.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From Latin reticulum ("net"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin rēticulum, diminutive of rēte, net. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“The reticulum is the smallest, with a capacity of about one-half gallon.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The researchers also looked at the endoplasmic reticulum, which is where the folding process of proteins occurs in a cell.”
“Ribosomes use as code to make Protein The quantity plus transport of these proteins could be said to happen at the Protein factory The endoplasmic reticulum which is the lotsalayered membrane where the ribosomes are at Now rather simplistically if you have a double size radiator you can keep cooler Or if you have twice as big a factory you may make more products”
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“The above equation is used to compute the Shannon entropy (H) or degree of uncertainty that the genetic machinery has during the decoding of the message encoded by the ethylene specific receptors embedded in the endoplasmic reticulum membrane and transmitted into the nucleus by the ethylene signaling pathway.”
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“Among the four digestive chambers hoofed creatures possess, it is the cow's reticulum lining that is getting all the culinary play, particularly its protein-rich "honeycomb" lining shaped and textured like the bee variety.”
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SCIE - Be the first...
... to use these words in spoken English and reap esteem. In the SPOKEN corpus of the COCA (full corpus: 450 million words) none of these occur.
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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AGRI - animal husbandry
Terms used in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy referring to policy issues in the animal husbandry sector.
bovine animals, beef labelling, animal husbandry, animal keeper, ear tag, electric fence, kid meat, wean off, battery, beekeeping, laying hen, pig meat and 140 more...
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Can You Stomach This?
These things have to do with the stomach...
stomach, gastric, sphincter, fundus, omentum, pylorus, cardia, chyme, mesogastrium, peristalsis, rugae, curvature and 12 more...
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Words of Anathem
Orth, Fluccish, and English words that play a role in Neal Stephenson's Anathem.
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retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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liminal, luminescence, trajectory, simulacrum, thundersnow, trappings, rigour, temporality, mammalian, diffuse, tearing, flail and 83 more...
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qubex In Neal Stephenson's Anathem, a syndev reticulum is a computer network. Nov 8, 2008