Rete

(from reskta, Heb.) A net; a congeries of ve els, or any animal or vegetable substance resembling a net, _RETE MIRABILE, in anatomy, a small plexus or net-work of ve els in the brain, surrounding the pituitary gland. Rete mucosum. (refe, a net.) Corpus reticulare. Corpus mucosum. Mucus Malphigii.' A mucous substance, deposited, in a net-like form, between the epidermis and cutis, which covers the sensible cutaneous papille, eonnects the epidermis with the cutis, and gives the colour to the body: ia Europe ans it is of a white colour, in Ethiopians black. See SKIN.