Medical Definition of Retia
1. Plural of rete. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retia
Literary usage of Retia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker (1897)
"retia Mirabilia. By this term is understood the sudden breaking-up of an ...
The retia mirabilia serve to retard the flow of blood, and thus cause a change ..."
2. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker (1897)
"retia Mirabilia. By this term is understood the sudden breaking-up of an ...
The retia mirabilia serve to retard the flow of blood, and thus cause a change ..."
3. Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim (1907)
"... vein persists throughout life as the epigastric vein in Reptiles and in Echidna,
but disappears in Birds and in other Mammals.1 retia Mirabilia. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1917)
"FFF [forward each time] retia [backward] re [forward.] I can not leave it till
it is done now for I would be laughed at. (Yes, only one letter and I think ..."
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