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RETICULAR
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling or forming a network
Example:
a reticulated highway system
Synonyms:
reticular; reticulate
Classified under:
Similar:
cancellate; cancellated; clathrate (having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows)
crisscross; crisscrossed (marked with crossing lines)
fretted; interlaced; latticed; latticelike (having a pattern of fretwork or latticework)
interconnected; interrelated (reciprocally connected)
lacy; netlike; netted; webbed; webby; weblike (having open interstices or resembling a web)
meshed (resembling a network)
networklike (having a network of veins or ribs)
Derivation:
reticulum (any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels))
Context examples:
Skin cancer that has spread down through the papillary dermis (the thin top layer of the dermis) but not into the reticular dermis (the thick bottom layer of the dermis).
(Clark level III skin cancer, NCI Dictionary)
A morphologic finding indicating that the cutaneous melanoma has invaded part of the papillary dermis but the malignant cellular infiltrate has not reached the papillary-reticular dermis interface.
(Clark Level II, NCI Thesaurus)
A blue nevus characterized by a multinodular cellular infiltrate with a dumb-bell architecture occupying the reticular dermis.
(Cellular Blue Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)
This structure contains several descending and ascending tracts, lower cranial nerve nuclei, a significant proportion of the reticular system of the brainstem and other structures.
(Medulla Oblongata, NCI Thesaurus)
A morphologic finding indicating that the cutaneous melanoma has invaded the entire thickness of the papillary dermis but the malignant cellular infiltrate does not extend into the reticular dermis.
(Clark Level III, NCI Thesaurus)
Stimulation of the periaqueductal gray (PAG) portion of the brain controlled stalking and stimulation of the reticular formation controlled biting.
(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)
A morphologic finding indicating that the cutaneous melanoma has invaded the reticular dermis.
(Clark Level IV, NCI Thesaurus)
A lymphocyte depleted Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by the presence of reticular fibrosis.
(Hodgkin's Disease, Lymphocyte Depletion, Reticular, NCI Thesaurus)
Emesis is a complex process coordinated by a central emesis center located in the lateral reticular formation of the mid-brainstem.
(Antiemetic Effect, NCI Thesaurus)
By modulating binding of the GABA inhibitory neurotransmitter to GABA-A receptors in the ascending reticular activating system, flurazepam blocks arousal of the cortical and limbic system, thereby exerting its sedative and hypnotic effect.
(Flurazepam, NCI Thesaurus)
