Designating or relating to (supposed) constituent particles; cf. organic molecule n. (a) at organic, adj. n.compounds organic molecule n. (b) at or…

Containing or consisting of silica; of the nature of silica. Of plant or animal structures.

Biology. Consisting (or believed to consist) of very tiny particles (see molecule, n. 3); finely granular. Now only in molecular layer, n. 2.

Resembling fibre or fibrous tissue; composed of, or characterized by, fibre or fibrous tissue; fibroid change (also fibroid degeneration): a morbid…

arising from cells of the same kind; opposed to heteroblastic.

Histology. Of epithelium: composed of a single layer of columnar cells all of which are in contact with the basement membrane but whose nuclei are…

applied to transplant tissue which is inert and not actively growing in the donor's body; opposed to homovital adj.

applied to transplant tissue which in the donor's body contains actively multiplying cells; opposed to homostatic adj.