Definition of Noncellular

1. Adjective. Not made up of or divided into cells.

Exact synonyms: Acellular
Similar to: Cell-free, One-celled, Single-celled
Antonyms: Cellular

Definition of Noncellular

1. Adjective. Not cellular. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Noncellular

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Noncellular

1. 1. Lacking cellular organization, as applied to viruses, which can only replicate within a cell, whether prokaryotic or eukaryotic. Synonym: subcellular. Synonym: acellular. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Noncellular

noncausally
noncausative
noncausatively
noncaustic
noncavitary
nonce word
nonce words
noncelebration
noncelebrations
noncelebratory
noncelebrities
noncelebrity
noncelestial
noncellular (current term)
noncellulose
noncellulosic
noncement
noncensored
noncensoring
noncensorship
noncensus
noncentered
noncentral
noncentralized
noncentrosymmetric
nonceramic
nonceramics
noncereal

Literary usage of Noncellular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"... elements indistinctly stratified ; cortical stratum reduced to that of a thin cellular, or noncellular ... Internal elements composed of a noncellular ..."

2. Importing Into the United States: A Guide for Commercial Importers edited by Barry Leonard (1999)
"Plastic plates, sheets, film, foil and strip of headings 3920 and 3921—(1) Statement as to whether the plastic is cellular or noncellular; (2) specification ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Consequently, the bronchial washings of six animals, collected 14 days To investigate whether antibody or some other noncellular substance present in the ..."

4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"The body wall as well as that of the tentacles is composed of two cellular layers, the ectoderm and entoderm, separated by a thin, noncellular ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... nothing now separates t he maternal from the foetal blood except the delicate walls of the foetal vessels covered by some nucleated noncellular tissue, ..."

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