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

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

such 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, ye…

Tamias. -- Ground story. Same as Ground floor (above). -- Ground substance (Anat.), the intercellular substance, or matrix, of tissues. -- Ground swell. (a) (Bot.) The plant groundsel. [Obs.] Holland. (b) A broad, deep swell or undulation of the ocean, caused by a long continued gale, and felt even at a remote dista…

e lifeless portion of tissue, either animal or vegetable, situated between the cells; the intercellular substance.

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.

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

applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.

The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.