reticula

Plural of reticulum. reticular (rē-tik'ū-lär), a. [= F. réticulaire = Sp. Pg. reticular = It. reticolare, The law [in England] is blind, crooked, and perverse, but sure and equal; its administration is on the practice of by gone ages, slow, reticular , complicated. The Century , XXVI. 822. 4. In an at., forming or formed by reticulation; retial; full of interstices; cancellate; areolar; cellular: as, reticular substance, ti ue, or membrane, which is the areolar or cellular or ordinary connective ti ue. The rete mucosum of the skin is sometimes specifically called the re ticular body. See rete. - Reticular cartilage, a cartilage in which the matrix is permeated with yellow elastic fibers. Also called elastic fibrocartilage, yellow elastic cartilage. - Reticular formation, the formatio reticular is, a formation occupying the anterior and lateral area of the oblong at a dorsad of the pyramids and lower olives and extending up into the pons (and mesencephalon). The ninth, tenth, and eleventh nerves mark its lateral boundaries. It presents interlacing longitudinal and transverse fibers with interspersed ganglion-cells. These cells are more frequent in the lateral parts, or formatio reticular is grise a, which are marked off from the median parts, or formatio reticular is alba, by the hypoglo al nerve-roots. Reticular lamina, See lamina. - Reticular layer of skin, the deeper-lying part of the corium, below the papillary layer.