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A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algæ, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.

by a white appearance occasioned by an accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular tissue. -- Milk meats, food made from milk, as butter and cheese. [Obs.] Bailey. -- Milk mirror. Same as Escutcheon, 2. -- Milk molar (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which are shed and replaced by the premola…

A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.…

rses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue.

An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.

A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue. [Written also edema.]

A cellular calc tufa, which in some places forms incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the quality of uniting fractured bones.

Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the vicinity of the uterus.

Nascent cortex, or immature cellular bark.

Inflammation of the cellular tissue around the kidney. -- Per`i*ne*phrit"ic, a.

Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.

ts and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.

A genus of minute unicellular algæ including the red snow plant (Protococcus nivalis).

Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division.

Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.

A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.

An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.

A small intercellular space, often containing Receiving reservoir (Water Works), a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.

ant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.