rete
Americannoun
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a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
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a network, as of fibers, nerves, or blood vessels.
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Origin of rete
1350–1400; Middle English riet < Latin rēte net
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Seals don’t need to regulate swimming-related blood pulses—and if that’s what a cranial rete mirabile is for, it explains why seals don’t have one.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
Vogl also points out that seals—which belong to a different marine mammal group—don’t have a rete mirabile around their brain.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
The plate was a map of the sky and the rete simulated the daily movement of the earth in relation to the stars.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Commencing from below and proceeding upwards, we find that the lowermost cells of the rete mucosum, those that are set immediately on the corium, are columnar in shape.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
An irregular cavity is thus formed in the thickened rete traversed by septa, the contained exudation being filled with granules, coagulated fibrin, and lymph.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In most animals that have them, retia mirabilia serve as a mechanism for temperature regulation, and they have a unique structure.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
Indeed, retia mirabilia resemble complex stringy nets made up of thin veins and thick arteries.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
Dolphins and other cetaceans possess additional retia mirabilia snaking around their lungs, up their spine and into their brain.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
Vogl speculates that the ancestors of cetaceans probably had retia mirabilia leading to the brain before they ever took to the oceans—but that this network served a different purpose on land.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
These retia mirabilia are often found in other parts of the mammalian body, though their function is still not satisfactorily explained.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
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