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Definition of Sustentacular
1. Adjective. Serving to sustain or support. "Sustentacular cells"
Definition of Sustentacular
1. a. Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue.
Definition of Sustentacular
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Serving to support or sustain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sustentacular
Literary usage of Sustentacular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"sustentacular Tissue (Fig. 53). — In the brain and spinal cord and in the optic
nerves two forms of sustentacular tissue are Fi8- 53. ..."
2. A Text-book of histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1904)
"The surface cells are of two kinds: (1) sustentacular cells, and (2) olfactory
cells. (1) The sustentacular eells are the more numerous ..."
3. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"These are small nucleated elements, the irregular branching protoplasm of which
anastomoses with that of neighboring basal cells and of the sustentacular ..."
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