subgranularadj.
/ˌsʌbˈɡranjᵿlə/, U.S. /ˈsəbˈɡrænjələr/ 1. Somewhat granular; finely granular.
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1821 Ann. Philos. New Ser. 1 136 The texture is sometimes flaky (like that of spermaceti), sometimes subgranular, like that of bees' wax.
1852 E. F. Kelaart Prodromus Faunæ Zeylanicæ 145 Scales..of the back and tail rhombic, imbricate, or circular and subgranular.
1893 Austral. Med. Jrnl. 15 180 The peculiar feature of the case consisted in the large size of the left ventricle, the hypertrophy being associated with chronic interstitial nephritis (subgranular kidneys).
1906 H. Ries Clay Deposits Virginia Coastal Plain v. 177 Subgranular and fine-grained bluish limestone full of gastropoda.
1998 Herpetologica 54 227/1 The ventrolateral fold has 2–3 subgranular scales.
2. Anatomy. Located beneath a layer of granular cells (within a part of the nervous system, esp. the dentate gyrus).
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1898 W. F. Norris & C. A. Oliver Syst. Dis. Eye III. 597 External to the papilla masses of hemorrhages were found..in the subgranular layer.
1913 Brain 36 135 With strong magnification one finds..affected cells in the subgranular pyramidal layer.
1967 Brain 90 533 Monoaminergic terminals are found mainly in the stratum radiatum and stratum lacunosum of the hippocampus.., and in the subgranular layer of the dentate gyrus.
2005 M. F. Beal et al. Neurodegenerative Dis. 357/2 New neurons are added to the adult dentate from the subgranular zone of the hippocampus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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