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Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ. -- Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential elemen…

Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.

Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.

Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell.

Surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells.

Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.

ue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.

A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.

Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

s with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.

or cells open on two sides, and fastened together horizontally. Called also Hargrave, or cellular, kite.

les. -- Tubular bridge, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or rectangular tube, with cellular walls made of iron plates riveted together, as the Britannia bridge over the Menai Strait, and the Victoria bridge at Montreal. -- Wheatstone's bridge (Elec.), a device for the measurement of resistances, so called becau…

A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [Written also burrstone.]

Cellular. Caldwell.

An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.

usly arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also cellular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase.

as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. Quain's Anat. Red blood corpuscles (Physiol.), in man, yellowi…