cisterna
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Origin of cisterna
< New Latin, Latin
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Proulx found something similar in 2018, when he and colleagues injected tracer dyes into the cisterna magna and found they entered the systemic blood more quickly in awake mice than anesthetized ones.
From Science Magazine ● May 24, 2024
Biggest of these, in the abdomen, is the cisterna chyli.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the protein passes along the Golgi’s cisternae, it is further modified by the addition of more carbohydrates.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The space contains a limpid cerebro-spinal fluid, which varies in quantity from 2 drachms to 2 oz., and is most plentiful in the dilatations at the base of the brain known as cisternae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
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