RETICULAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reticular mean? 

• RETICULAR (adjective)
  The adjective RETICULAR has 1 sense:

1. resembling or forming a network

  Familiarity information: RETICULAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETICULAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling or forming a network

Synonyms:

reticular; reticulate

Context example:

a reticulated highway system

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 

An atypical proliferation of atypical melanocytes in the dermal-epidermal junction, without infiltration of the papillary or reticular dermis.

(Lentigo Maligna, NCI Thesaurus)

It is made up of a thin upper layer called the papillary dermis, and a thick lower layer called the reticular dermis.

(Dermis, NCI Dictionary)

The most common pattern is reticular.

(Ovarian Yolk Sac Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

The layer of the skin between the papillary dermis (the thin top layer of the dermis) and the reticular dermis (the thick bottom layer of the dermis).

(Papillary-reticular dermal interface, NCI Dictionary)

The space contains reticular fibers and microvilli from the hepatocytes.

(Perisinusoidal Space, NCI Thesaurus)

The skin layer that separates the papillary dermis from the reticular dermis.

(Papillary-reticular dermal interface, NCI Thesaurus)

Melanoma that has spread down into the reticular dermis (the thick bottom layer of the dermis).

(Clark Level IV, NCI Dictionary)

Skin cancer that has spread down into the reticular dermis (the thick bottom layer of the dermis).

(Clark level IV skin cancer, NCI Dictionary)

Melanoma 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, NCI Dictionary)

It is made up of two layers, the basal lamina and the reticular lamina.

(Basilar Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)