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cisterna, n.|sɪˈstɜːnə|
Pl. cisternae.
[a. L. cisterna: see cistern n.]
1. Anat. A fluid-filled cavity, esp. a reservoir of cerebrospinal fluid in the subarachnoid spaces; = cistern n. 4. Freq. with postmodifying mod.L. adj.
1894D. J. Cunningham Man. Pract. Anat. II. 482 Certain of the cisternae require special mention. Ibid. 483 Leading out from the cisterna basalis there are certain wide subarachnoid channels. 1921Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull. XXXII. 70/1 The most frequent location for an obstruction in communicating hydrocephalus is in the cisternæ. 1967Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 2 Sept. 493/2 It was..injected into the CSF..by suboccipital puncture into the cisterna magna with the patient sitting. 1987Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) II. xv. 23/2 Lymph, draining from the cisterna chyli in the abdomen, passes up through the thoracic duct in front of the dorsal spine to the left subclavian vein.
2. Cytol. A saccular vesicle in some intracellular structures, esp. in the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus.
1962Sci. Survey III. 166 At this magnification these sacs—or, as they are called, cisternae—can be seen to be covered on the outside with attached particles making them look ‘rough’-surfaced. 1979Jrnl. Compar. Path. LXXXIX. 522 The most commonly encountered forms of linear membrane structure consisted of several fused or closely apposed cisternae. 1984Holtzman & Novikoff Cells & Organelles (ed. 3) ii. iv. 137 From the polysomes where the proteins are manufactured, they enter the cisternae of the ER and move toward the Golgi apparatus. 1988Sci. Amer. Sept. 57/1 The Golgi cisternae themselves contain no insulin. |