Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated between tubes: as, the intertubular cells.

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

  • adjective Between tubes or tubules

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  • adjective Between tubes or tubules.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ tubular

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Examples

  • The section cut at about the base of the papillæ of the sensitive sole. _a_, papillæ, with horn-cells surrounding them; _b_, interpapillary or intertubular horn;

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • Thus, in all, in the horn of the wall we find a tubular, an intertubular, and intratubular substance.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • In a previous page we have described the manner of growth of the horn tubules, and noted the direction they took in the wall; also, we have noticed the existence between them of an intertubular horn or cement.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • This is accounted for by the fact that in the horn of the frog there is a large amount of intertubular material, this having the effect of frequently turning the horn tubules from the straight.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • In addition to this, the intertubular material has a peculiar arrangement of the cells composing it.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • The tortuous direction of the horn tubules, and the almost interlocking nature of the alternating strata of the intertubular material, together combine to give the frog its characteristic toughness and resiliency.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • The lighter striæ represent the intertubular material.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • It then escapes at a pressure of l. 4 atmospheres and enters the intertubular space of the first evaporator.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various

  • In fact, hairs matted together by intertubular material, and only differing from ordinary hairs in their development in that they arise, not from papillæ sunk in the corium, but from papillæ projecting from its surface.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • No line of demarcation can be observed between the horn so formed and the intertubular material of the wall.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

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