rete
Americannoun
plural
retia-
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.
noun
Other Word Forms
- retial adjective
Etymology
Origin of rete
1350–1400; Middle English riet < Latin rēte net
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
In the human brain there is no rete mirabile, though such an organ is found in the calf.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.
Even the fluid from a blister, in virtue of the isolated cells of the rete Malpighii which it contains, is capable of starting epithelial growth on a granulating surface.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
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