单词 | stellate |
释义 | stellateadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of the sky: Studded with stars. poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > star > [adjective] > full of starredc1225 starry?c1400 starneda1425 stelliferant1490 stelliferal1496 starnyc1500 stellatec1500 stelliferous1583 star-spangled1600 lampful1605 starful1606 stellified1611 stelled1628 star-studded?a1656 astriferous1656 stellated1755 constellated1767 constellate1855 instarred1888 c1500 W. Kennedy Poems (Schipper) iv. 27 Þe hevyne stellat, planetis, montanis and fellis, War fair perchiament, and all as Virgillis dyte. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > star > [adjective] starry1543 sideral1545 astral1605 siderean1613 stellary1623 sidereal1639 astrean1650 asteristic1652 stellar1656 sidereous1657 siderous1658 stellate1694 asteriala1708 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. Ded. p. xi There you may see the Operation of Elements and stellate Influences. 3. Star-shaped; arranged or grouped in the form of a conventional star or stars; (chiefly in scientific use) radiating from a centre like the rays of a star. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > star-shaped starlike1578 star fashion1597 starry1597 star-shaped1646 asteristic1652 stellaceous1657 stellate1661 stellated1661 stellar1670 astral1672 stelliform1794 stellular1796 asteroid1854 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 228 The Stellate Raie is lesse hard..than the Smooth. 1661 R. Boyle Two Ess. Unsuccessfulness Exper. i, in Certain Physiol. Ess. 50 Several Stellate Regulusses of both Antimony and Mars. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Stellate Plants, are by the Botanists called such Plants as have their Leaves growing on the Stalks at certain Intervals or Distances, in the form of a Radiant Star. 1752 tr. Heister's Surg. (1768) II. 363 (margin) The Stellate Bandage. 1756 Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 17 The uniform stellate form of snow is very remarkable. 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 40 In many plants the hairs grow in clusters,..and are occasionally united at their base: such are called stellate. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 272 The Sulphate..crystallizes in stellate groups of silky needles. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 111 In their form the Star-fishes differ considerably, though in most the figure is markedly stellate. 1874 Dunglison's Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) Stellate Ligament, a name given to the anterior costo-vertebral ligament, from its shape. 1880 Sollas in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5 257 The stellate spicules..are produced within the interior of cells. B. n. A stellate sponge-spicule. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > parts of > sponge spicule > star-shaped stella1828 star1839 stellate1880 sterraster1887 chiaster1888 1880 Sollas in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5 132 Stelletta... The skeleton consists of long-shafted spicules, minute hair-like spicules, and stellates. 1887 W. J. Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 417/2 [article Sponge] By reduction of the spire the spiraster passes into the stellate or aster. Compounds In Anatomy, as stellate cell, any of various types of cell with long processes, as a Langerhans cell, a Kupffer cell, or an astrocyte (sense 2); stellate ganglion, the lowest of the three cervical ganglia of the sympathetic trunk; stellate reticulum, a layer of cells with long processes within the enamel organ of a developing tooth. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > nerve cell > types of nerve vesicle1839 brain cell1848 stellate cell1870 Purkinje cell1872 neuroblast1878 touch cell1878 Golgi('s) cell1892 memory cell1892 astrocyte1896 astroblast1897 motor neuron1897 cytochrome1898 stichochrome1899 monaxon1900 basket cell1901 relay neuron1903 internuncial neuron1906 sheath cell1906 motoneuron1908 adjustor1909 satellite1912 microglia1924 oligodendroglia1924 sympathicoblast1927 pituicyte1930 oligodendrocyte1932 sympathoblast1934 sympathogonia1934 interneuron1938 Renshaw cell1954 the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > cell odontoblast1870 stellate reticulum1870 the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > nerves in trunk cauda1696 obturator nerve1732 phrenic1737 sciatic1741 solar ganglion1741 pudendal1752 solar plexus?1768 splanchnic1840 mare's tail1890 stellate ganglion1918 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 32 Draba muralis, suberect or prostrate, stellate-hispid. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 130 Stellate-branched fibres occur in the foliage-leaf of Sciadopitys. 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II. 32/1 Langerhans' cells, stellate cells found in deeper layers of epidermis, apparently related to nerve terminations. 1895 A. H. Smith Dental Microsc. p. xvii Stellate reticulum of enamel organ. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 300 The patches, examined microscopically, are found to consist of embryonic round cells, spindle and stellate cells arranged in layers. 1901 tr. H. Dürck's Atlas & Epitome Special Path. Histol. II. 18 The so-called stellate cells, or Kupffer's cells,..are faintly visible. 1918 Gray's Anat. (ed. 20) 935 The accelerator fibres of the heart leave mainly through the second and third thoracic nerves and pass to the stellate ganglion. 1921 F. Tilney & H. A. Riley Form & Functions Central Nerv. Syst. xli. 749 Immediately beneath the layers of large and medium-sized pyramidal cells is a stratum containing a number of small monopolar stellate cells belonging exclusively to the Golgi type II. 1945 W. E. Le Gros Clark Tissues of Body (ed. 2) xiii. 367 Scattered throughout the grey and white matter of the central nervous system are stellate cells... They are divided into two categories, protoplasmic astrocytes..and fibrous astrocytes. 1969 W. A. Beresford Lect. Notes Histol. xxiv. 169 ‘Mesectoderm’ cells..induce overlying ectodermal lamina to separate into tooth germs and provide for each an enamel organ with its pulp/stellate reticulum and inner and outer epithelia. 1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) vii. 1129/1 The cervicothoracic (stellate) ganglion is..much larger than the middle cervical ganglion, being probably formed by the coalescence of the lower two cervical segmented ganglia with the first thoracic. Derivatives ˈstellately adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adverb] > star starlike1595 stellularly1796 stelliformly1822 stellatedly1833 stellately1847 1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. 106 Leaves plane, lanceolate, stellately hairy. 1848 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes (new ed.) 283 Surface lamello~striate, and usually stellately so, stars not circumscribed. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 58 One may, for instance, call the flat horizontal appendages of the Elæagneæ,..stellately branched, multicellular hairs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). stellatev. transitive. To make stellate or star-shaped. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [verb (transitive)] > make star-shaped stellate1859 1859 A. Cayley Coll. Math. Papers (1891) IV. 82 Each face is formed by stellating a face of the great dodecahedron. 1948 H. S. M. Coxeter Regular Polytopes xiv. 264 The first stellation of {5, 3, 3} is constructed by stellating the 720 pentagons into {5/ 2}'s, and the 120 dodecahedra into {5/ 2, 5}'s. The result is {5/ 2, 5, 3}. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1500v.1859 |
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