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‖ interstitium Obs.|ɪntəˈstɪʃɪəm|
Pl. -stitia, († -a's), -stitiums.
[L.; see interstice.]
1. Of space: = interstice 1.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 42 b/1 Noe concavity or interstitium of muscles. 1665Hooke Microgr. 94 The small pores, or interstitia..betwixt the Globules, I plainly saw. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 37 Curtains fringed with Battlements from one to the other; in whose Interstitiums whole Culverin are traversed. 1706E. Baynard in Sir J. Floyer Hot & Cold Bath ii. 252 It must be granulated and corn'd that the Air may lodge in the Interstitia's.
2. Of time: = interstice 2.
1624T. Scott 2nd Pt. Vox Pop. 45 This interstitium or twi-light of Treatie, or suspence betweene Warre and Peace. 1650Fuller Pisgah iii. vi. 421 There was an Interstitium, or distance of seventy years between the destruction of Solomon's, and erection of Zorobabel's Temple. 1704Swift Mech. Operat. Spir. Misc. (1711) 288 The Interstitia are duly fill'd up by the Preacher, to prevent too long a pause.
Restrict Obs. to senses in Dict. and add: [1.] b. Anat. and Zool. That part of a given region of the body which lies between the principal cells, tissues, etc. of that region.
1949Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XC. 266 If the endocrine function is located in the interstitium, it is the lipoidal cells..which influence the bird in its prenuptial sexual behaviour. 1956Nature 21 Jan. 144/1 In all cases the Leydig cell cytoplasm of the interstitium had become sprinkled with lipid droplets. 1978Ibid. 8 June 465/1 The remainder of the cell..flows out of the seminiferous cord and moves into the interstitium. 1984Tighe & Davies Pathology (ed. 4) ii. 8 An important change in necrotic cells is the release of intracellular enzymes into the interstitium and thence into the circulation. 1989Jrnl. Developmental Physiol. XI. 354/1 The pH in intra- and extraembryonic blood vessels and in the embryonic interstitium has been measured in 4 and 6 days-old chick embryos. |