Reticulum

(re-tik' -u-lutn). 1. A network. 2. In biology, applied to various reticulated structures, e. g., (a) the second division (hood or honey-comb bag) of the complicated stomach of a ruminant; the intracellular or intranuclear network; (c) the neuroglia; (d) the fibrous substance growing at the base of the petioles of certain palms, also called mattulla. R. cutaneum, R. mucosum. See Rete mucosum. R.-Germ (of Von Ebner), a network of fibers occasionally seen between layers of seminal cells.