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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Located among or between cells.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated between or among cells; interstitial in a cellular tissue: as, the intercellular substance or matrix of cartilage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Lying between cells or cellules

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  • adjective Located between, or connecting, cells

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  • adjective located between cells

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Examples

  • The bile ducts commence by little passages in the liver cells which communicate with canaliculi termed intercellular biliary passages (bile capillaries).

    XI. Splanchnology. 2i. The Liver 1918

  • A nonliving material, called the intercellular matrix, fills the spaces between the cells.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • A nonliving material, called the intercellular matrix, fills the spaces between the cells.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • A research team led by Andre Levchenko of the Whiting School of Engineering has shed light on a previously poorly understood method of cell-cell communication called intercellular transfer of cellular components (ICT).

    News-Letter 2009

  • A research team led by Andre Levchenko of the Whiting School of Engineering has shed light on a previously poorly understood method of cell-cell communication called intercellular transfer of cellular components (ICT).

    News-Letter 2009

  • "Steroids exert direct inhibitory effects on the expression of adhesion molecules in vascular endothelial cells such as intercellular adhesion molecule-1, E-selectin, and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, all of which are thought to be involved in the early process of atherosclerosis," explains Dr Otsuki.

    innovations-report 2010

  • "Steroids exert direct inhibitory effects on the expression of adhesion molecules in vascular endothelial cells such as intercellular adhesion molecule-1, E-selectin, and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, all of which are thought to be involved in the early process of atherosclerosis," explains Dr Otsuki.

    innovations-report 2010

  • "Steroids exert direct inhibitory effects on the expression of adhesion molecules in vascular endothelial cells such as intercellular adhesion molecule-1, E-selectin, and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, all of which are thought to be involved in the early process of atherosclerosis," explains Dr Otsuki.

    innovations-report 2010

  • "Steroids exert direct inhibitory effects on the expression of adhesion molecules in vascular endothelial cells such as intercellular adhesion molecule-1, E-selectin, and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, all of which are thought to be involved in the early process of atherosclerosis," explains Dr Otsuki.

    innovations-report 2010

  • We have a common ancestor that evolved intercellular signalling (for e.g. colonialism, mating), a function which was expanded in certain lineages, (esp. metazoans that used those signally functions to coordinate across specialized tissues).

    Biomolecular Networks 2009

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