Crossword clues for reticulum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reticulum \Re*tic"u*lum\, n.;pl. Reticula. [L. dim. of rete a net.] (Anat.)
The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach.
The neuroglia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "second stomach of a ruminant" (so called from the folds of the membrane), from Latin reticulum "a little net" (see reticulate (adj.)). The word was later given various uses in biology, cytology, histology, etc., and made a southern constellation by La Caille (1763).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A network 2 A pattern of interconnected objects. 3 (context zoology English): The second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant
Wikipedia
Reticulum is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for a small net, or reticle—a net of crosshairs at the focus of a telescope eyepiece that is used to measure star positions. The constellation is best viewed between October and December, but cannot be seen from middle to northern latitudes.
The reticulum is the first chamber in the alimentary canal of a ruminant animal. Anatomically it is considered the smaller portion of the reticulorumen along with the rumen. Together these two compartments make up 84% of the volume of the total stomach. The rumen is located at the base of the esophagus.
The reticulum is colloquially referred to as the honeycomb. It is also known as the bonnet and as the kings-hood. When cleaned and used for food, it is called " tripe".
Heavy or dense feed and foreign objects will settle here. It is the site of hardware disease in cattle and because of the proximity to the heart this disease can be life-threatening.
The modern constellation Reticulum is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western star charts. Based on the work of Xu Guangqi and the German Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell in the late Ming Dynasty, this constellation has been classified as two of the 23 Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu) under the name Snake's Head (蛇首, Shéshǒu) and White Patches Attached (夾白, Jiābái).
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 網罟座 (wǎng gǔ zuò), meaning "net for birds or fish constellation".
The constellation Reticulum is small and faint in Earth's southern sky.
Reticulum may also refer to:
- Endoplasmic reticulum, an organelle within the cell in eukaryotic organisms
- Reticulum (anatomy), the second chamber in the alimentary canal of a ruminant animal
- Reticulum-cell sarcoma, a malignant tumor of reticular tissue that is composed primarily of neoplastic histocytes
- Reticulum (Chinese astronomy), classified as two of 23 "Southern Asterisms" (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu)
- Reticulum II, a dwarf galaxy rich in gold.
Usage examples of "reticulum".
Like other cells it has a cell wall, a cell substance with its linin and fluid portions, a nucleus surrounded by a membrane and containing a reticulum, a nucleolus and chromatic material, and lastly, a centrosome.
After the remasticated food has reached the manyplies, the groove in the reticulum is pushed open by a fresh bolus, and so the process is repeated until the food consumed has all passed on towards the abomasum or true digestive stomach.
Further, we find that the reticulum within the nucleus is made up of two very different parts.
I told you that the Synod had identified you as a nexus in the reticulum, a critical junction.
Siegfried inserted his arm and felt his way to the reticulum I watched him as he groped inside the honeycombed organ far out of sight against the diaphragm.
Its shell was marked by a thin reticulum of cracks, showing that it had at one time been open, but now was resealed, signifying that the prophet might indeed one day be born again, might return to the people to make known more new and wondrous truths.
In the complex cell that was the Authority, he was no more than endoplasmic reticulum, a conduit between the nucleus that was the Colligatarch and the surging protoplasmic mass of mankind.
It seemed as if the skin had been flayed from its body: the flesh was completely naked and a reticulum of yellow circulatory channels was visible on or just below the surface.
And those labyrinthine structures are part of the endoplasmic reticulum.
She wore the green traveling suit and carried a little reticula filled with papers.
The micrograph showed the bug, with its bacteria-like lack of a nucleus, its amoeba-like pseudopods and irregular cellular borders, and its just-plain-weird ribosome clusters and endoplasmic reticulum, plus some things not even Marlowe could identify.