reticularadj.
/rᵻˈtɪkjᵿlə/, U.S. /rəˈtɪkjələr/ 1.
a. Chiefly Anatomy. Resembling a net in appearance or construction, netlike; consisting of interwoven fibres, filaments, etc.; of or relating to a reticulum.
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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fibre > [adjective] > network of
reticular1578
plexiform1733
plexicose1848
plexal1851
the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [adjective] > like a net or network
netty1587
network1599
meshed1616
retiform1636
reticulate1658
reticulated1665
verricular1706
reticulary1717
retiformous1718
reticular1722
wide-meshed1724
netted1791
reticulating1795
reticuled1824
reticulose1826
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 100 Through these vpper ventricles of the brayne the reticular or net like foldes called Coriformes are caryed, whose vses doe belong to the generation of animall spirite.
1612 P. Lowe Disc. Whole Art Chyrurgerie (ed. 2) v. x. 143 Those nerues..doe divide, and each of them passe through the holes of the head, and is seuerally implanted in either eye, and in the interior part of the nerue which is soft, and marowish, doth dilate it selfe, and maketh the tunicke reticular.
1682 T. Gibson Anat. Humane Bodies 12 There is spread over the surface of the skin, a certain mucous and reticular body.
1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 85 He found it intirely coagulated,..with a reticular Pellicle upon the Surface exposed to the Air.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 265 Contenting themselves either with the bark of trees, or the reticular covering of a coco-nut.
1787 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 389 This reticular net-work in the Seal is very coarse.
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 83 Hepatic Pyrites..is found crystallized..or reticular.
1805 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 5 The heart is always compacted together by a delicate reticular membrane.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 166 A reticular disposition of the bony substance.
1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 23 The papillary layer merges into the reticular layer without distinct line of demarcation.
a1955 A. R. Ammons Coll. Poems (1972) 14 The root mesh deep and reticular in the full earth.
1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 4 Apr. 784/2 All the bones are somewhat demineralized, with a lace-like, reticular trabecular pattern.
1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind ix. 224 Malpighi distinguished the horny outer layer of the tongue from the reticular mucous layer (now known as the Malpighian layer).
b. Zoology and Veterinary Medicine. Of or relating to the reticulum of a ruminant.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [adjective] > relating to stomachs of
psalterial1865
reticular1889
ruminal1910
omasal1923
1815 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 384 The reticular folds of the second stomachs of ruminant animals.]
1889 J. G. M'Kendrick Textbk. Physiol. II. 100 The walls of the reticular spaces also contain muscular fibres.
1923 G. H. Wooldridge Encycl. Vet. Med., Surg. & Obstetr. II. 1025/1 This operation [sc. rumenotomy]..is sometimes performed for exploratory purposes in obscure cases of ruminal, reticular, or omasal indigestion.
1966 T. Dalling & A. Robertson Internat. Encycl. Vet. Med. V. 2633 The reticular contents are liquid and offer no resistance to a thorough examination.
1991 Jrnl. Animal Sci. 69 2177 Duration and amplitude of reticular contractions both increased linearly..as feed intake level increased.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [adjective] > geometric
diapered?a1400
frettedc1420
checkeryc1440
checkeda1475
diaper1480
chequered1486
lozenged1523
diapery1605
fret1663
lozengy1686
reticulated1753
geometrical1777
reticular1783
geometric1842
Z-shaped1858
chessboard1889
1783 H. Swinburne Trav. in Two Sicilies I. liii. 396 It [sc. the Trajan way] is raised upon a level of arches, built in the reticular or losengy manner.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 140/2 This structure consists of small pieces of baked earth cut lozengewise,..and was called reticular, from its resemblance to fishing-nets.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 306 They [sc. the ancients] had their reticular or reticulated walls.
1867 G. M. Musgrave Nooks & Corners Old France I. x. 327 He drew my attention to long continuous courses of tile and reticular brick work just above ground.
3. Chiefly poetic and literary. Resembling a net in effect or operation, esp. by tending to enclose, encompass, or capture.In quot. 1883: intricate, complicated.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [adjective]
snarledc1440
entangled1561
intrinsicate1562
interlaqueate1575
kangled1577
intricate1579
ravelled1594
tangled1600
perplexed1605
intrincea1616
intertangleda1625
intangle1642
snarly1647
intertwisteda1659
tangly1813
reticular1818
uncardeda1833
tanglesome1888
warpled1897
pretzelled1938
1818 T. L. Peacock Nightmare Abbey xii. 182 Cutting the Gordian knot of his reticular envelopement.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII lix. 34 Yet many have a method more reticular—‘Fishers for men’, like Sirens with soft lutes.
1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 822/1 The law is blind, crooked, and perverse..; its administration is on the practice of by-gone ages, slow, reticular, complicated.
1938 J. Marks Family of Barrett xli. 525 The problem which for her had been reticular for all other problems, vexations, losses, in her life had been her relation to her father.
1995 R. P. McDermott & H. Tylbor in D. Tedlock & B. Mannheim Dialogic Emergence of Culture viii. 231 The collusion approach develops from a more reticular sense of context.
Compounds
reticular activating system n. Physiology the part of the reticular formation involved in mediating the body's overall level of arousal or alertness.
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1949 G. Moruzzi & H. W. Magoun in Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 1 455/1 The following account..explores the relations of this reticular activating system to the arousal reaction to natural stimuli.
1993 S. J. Ettinger Pocket Compan. Textbk. Vet. Internal Med. xiv. 41 Wakefulness is maintained by the ascending reticular activating system.
2007 Yoga Mag. Oct. 10/2 One thing that happens when we set a clear intention is that we re-set the reticular activating system (RAS).
reticular cell n. Histology a cell forming part of a reticulum; spec. a relatively undifferentiated, often pluripotential cell associated with reticular fibres in loose connective tissue, esp. in lymphoid and myeloid tissue; cf. reticulum cell n. at reticulum n. Compounds.
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the world > life > biology > substance > cell > types of cells > [noun] > other types of cells
reticular cell1832
torula1833
reserve cell1842
subcell1844
parenchyma cell1857
pedicel cell1858
nettle cell1870
heterocyst1872
prickle cell1872
angioblast1875
palisade cell1875
sextant1875
spindle cell1876
neuroblast1878
body cell1879
plasma cell1882
reticulum cell1882
stem cell1885
Langhans1886
basal cell1889
pole cell1890
myelocyte1891
statocyst1892
mast cell1893
thrombocyte1893
iridocyte1894
precursor1895
nurse cell1896
amacrine1900
statocyte1900
mononuclear1903
oat cell1903
myeloblast1904
trochoblast1904
adipocyte1906
polynuclear1906
fibrocyte1911
akaryote1920
Rouget cell1922
Sternberg–Reed1922
amphicyte1925
monoblast1925
pericyte1925
promyelocyte1925
pituicyte1930
agamete1932
sympathogonia1934
athrocyte1938
progenitor1938
Reed–Sternberg cell1939
submarginal1941
delta cell1942
mastocyte1947
squame1949
podocyte1954
transformed cell1956
transformant1957
spheroplast1958
pinealocyte1961
immunocyte1963
lactotroph1966
mammotroph1966
minicell1967
proheterocyst1970
myofibroblast1971
cybrid1974
1832 Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 364 The reticular cells on its right side.
1925 O. S. Strong & A. Elwyn Bailey's Text-bk. Histol. (ed. 7) iv. 75 Others maintain that the delicate fibers run in the peripheral cytoplasm (ectoplasm) of the reticular cells.
1975 Jrnl. Pathol. 117 119 The term reticular cell should be reserved for the dendritic reticular cell of Nossal et al.
2008 Molecular Immunol. 46 1 The main reticular cell type, fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs) emerged as a considerably heterogeneous group of the stroma.
reticular fibre n. chiefly Histology a fibre forming part of a netlike structure; spec. any of the collagen fibres forming a network in loose connective tissue in various sites in the body.
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1698 J. Floyer Treat. Asthma i. sig. a4v After Expiration the Vessels are shrunk as the Bladders be, and the Reticular Fibers of the Bladders, by closing them, express the Blood out of the Vessels.
1763 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 557 When the body was opened, the internal coat appeared to be composed of reticular fibres.
1856 J. W. Griffith & A. Henfrey Micrographic Dict. 603 In some sponges an external membrane is present, and this has been observed to exhibit a reticular or cellular appearance, from the presence of fine reticular fibres.
1930 A. A. Maximow & W. Bloom Text-bk. Histol. iv. 95 Reticular or lattice fibers..are electively impregnated with silver by modified Bielschowsky methods after which they appear as black, sharply drawn nets.
1993 Small Ruminant Res. 10 227 Reticular fibres, but not elastic fibres, were observed in the peritubular connective tissue.
reticular formation n. (a) a netlike structure, esp. one composed of reticular fibres; (b) Anatomy a diffuse part of the brainstem with complex ascending and descending connections which is involved in the control of autonomic and endocrine function, reflex activity, and behavioural states.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [adjective] > seats of specific faculties
sensorial power1794
reticular formation1847
premotor1923
limbic1952
mesolimbic1971
1847 H. Smith tr. M. J. Schleiden Contributions to Phytogenesis in tr. T. Schwann Microsc. Res. 244 I have also discovered..a very delicate reticular formation of fibres [Ger. eine mehr netzartige Faserbildung] in Linaria vulgaris, Datura stramonium, [etc.].
1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XIII. 956 There are no diagnostic points whatsoever for tumors in the olivary bodies and reticular formation, except the general symptoms of a cerebral tumor and the special ones of bulbar paralyses.
1930 C. Goulden & C. L. Harris tr. F. E. Koby Slit-lamp Microsc. Living Eye (ed. 2) vi. 177 Reticular formations may also be observed after parenchymatous keratitis. These cobweb-like opacities are stable, unlike fibrinous threads.
1991 Nursing Times 6 Feb. 36/1 The reticular formation extends through the central core of the medulla oblongata, pons and mid-brain.
reticular system n. (a) a network of protoplasm, cells, fibres, etc.; (b) Physiology = reticular activating system n.
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1846 A. Henfrey tr. C. Nägeli in Rep. & Papers Bot. (Ray Soc.) 226 From this the thread-like currents flow out through the cells.., or it is connected with a reticular system of currents [Ger. netzförmige Strömung].
1872 Proc. 20th Meeting Amer. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 358 As in other cases, the endochrome of these first cells is discharged into a reticular system of coherent cells.
1941 Lancet 11 Jan. 45/2 Aschoff's reticulo-endothelial system forms part of Maximow's reticular system.
1994 Jrnl. Neurol. Sci. 122 15 The reticular system might play a role in the abnormal motor control system in PD [= Parkinson's disease] patients.
reticular tissue n. Anatomy and Histology †(a) = Malpighian layer n. at Malpighian adj. 1f (obsolete); (b) loose connective tissue containing reticular fibres, or reticular fibres and cells, esp. that of lymphoid and myeloid tissue.
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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > other tissues > [noun]
cortexa1676
reticular tissue1807
reticulum1870
submucosa1870
subserosa1871
adenoid1881
jacket1885
myoepithelium1890
1807 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 3 451 When by means of cataplasms and lotions, the crusts have been softened and removed, the appearance of the reticular tissue is found red and erysipelatous.
1848 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 5) I. p. cxiii The substance known by the names of ‘cellular’, ‘areolar’, ‘filamentous’, and ‘reticular’ tissue.
1941 Lancet 11 Jan. 46/1 The relationship of the angioid proliferations to the reticular tissue is..complex.
1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xiv. 450 The spleen is the largest mass of reticular tissue in the vertebrate body.
Derivatives
reˈticularly adv. like a net; so as to form a net; as a reticulum (in various senses).
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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fibre > [adverb] > like a network
reticularly1719
1719 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher II. xxiii. xxii. 710 Some Plants are knit together Reticularly, or Net-wise [Du. nets-wyse].
1798 G. Mitchell tr. D. L. G. Karsten Descr. Minerals in Leskean Mus. II. v. 615 Greenish grey reticularly and very abundantly veined marble.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 382/2 It is owing to this reticularly arranged stratum of muscular fibres that the bladder..presents its peculiar irregular surface.
1875 C. C. Blake Zoology 331 In Retepora the polypary is..perforated reticularly.
1906 Ann. Carnegie Mus. 3 431 The entire upper surface [of the skull] is covered with round or angular pits..formed by convex reticularly arranged ridges of bone.
1998 Jrnl. Torrey Bot. Soc. 125 271/1 Endothecial cells are sparsely or reticularly pitted and have walls that are thin on the outside.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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