RETINACULUM
\ɹˌɛtɪnˈakjʊləm], \ɹˌɛtɪnˈakjʊləm], \ɹ_ˌɛ_t_ɪ_n_ˈa_k_j_ʊ_l_ə_m]\
Definitions of RETINACULUM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
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A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
By Oddity Software
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One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
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A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
By Noah Webster.
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A small glandular mass to which an orchid pollinium adheres at dehiscence; a band which holds parts closely together; a minute hooked prominence holding the egg-sac in position in Cirripedes; a structure linking together the fore and hind wings of some Insects along with the frenulum.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A surgical instrument, formerly used in the operation of castration; and in that of hernia, to prevent the intestines from falling into the scrotum. - Scultet. Retinacula are also band-like extensions of a cellulo-membranous structure, which seem to suspend the ovum in the Follicle of De Graaf. They appear to correspond to the chalazae of the egg of the bird.
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Bride.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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One of the solid fibers in lymphatic glands which pass from the follicular capsule across the intervening space to the follicle, holding the follicular reticulum tense.
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In embryology, in the pi., retinacula, of Barry, certain tense filaments which connect parts of the cellular membrane lining the graafian follicle. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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