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Main definitions of reticulum in English

1A fine network or netlike structure.
See also endoplasmic reticulum
‘The cytoplasm contained numerous mitochondria, fragmented rough endoplasmic reticula, small lipid droplets, and free ribosomes.’
- ‘The typical stellate reticulum and microcyst formation often seen in follicular ameloblastoma, however, was rarely encountered.’
- ‘Generally, oxidative stress in skeletal muscles leads to an increase in cytosolic calcium levels and a slowed rate of calcium uptake into the sarcoplasmic reticulum.’
- ‘Generally, cuboidal T2 pneumocytes were located in depressions created by the reticulum of capillaries of the alveolar wall.’
- ‘The muscle of the gallbladder consists of longitudinal, oblique, and transverse fibers forming a single incomplete layer, a reticulum of muscle bundles separated by connective tissue.’
- ‘In the cytoplasm of the tumor cell, abundant free ribosomes were recognized, but well-developed rough endoplasmic reticula were few.’
web, criss-cross, grid, lattice, net, matrix, mesh, webbing, tracery, trellis
2Zoology
The second stomach of a ruminant, having a honeycomb-like structure, receiving food from the rumen and passing it to the omasum.
- ‘All digesta was removed and weighed from the reticulum, omasal folds, mid-omasum, abomasum, small intestine, caecum, colon, and rectum.’