Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In church arch., the place where the transept meets the nave and choir, this space often being covered by a tower or cupola; the cross.
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- noun medicine An
interstitial space within a tissue or organ. - noun medicine Specifically the tissue between the pulmonary
alveoli and the bloodstream. - noun philosophy A state between systems or spaces.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Et fuit, quum retraheret manum suam, ecce, egressus est frater ejus, et dixit, Cur rupisti super to interstitium?
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Et dedit in manum servorum suorum, singulos greges seorsum: dixitque ad servos suos, Transite ante me, et interstitium ponetis inter gregem et gregem.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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A Style in Treason CHAPTER ONE The Karas, a fragile transship-she was really little more than a ferry, just barely meriting a name-came fluttering out of the interstitium. into the Flos Campi system a day late in a ball of rainbows, trailing behind her two gaudy contrails of false photons, like a moth unable to free herself of her cocoon.
Anywhen Blish, James 1970
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Spenser ‘zephyrus’, and not ‘zephyr’; so ‘interstitium’ (Fuller) preceded ‘interstice’; ‘philtrum’ (Culverwell) ‘philtre’; ‘expansum’
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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I suppose, without much more difficulty be yielded, seeing that we may observe a very great _interstitium_ of Air betwixt the Object, and the Eye, makes it appear of a dead blew, far enough differing from a red, or yellow.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Individual cells expressing CD24 were identified in the interstitium of later gestation and postnatal kidneys.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Larissa Ivanova 2010
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Rheumatoid lung is a disease of the tissue which makes up the walls of the alveoli, known as the interstitium.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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Pulmonary LAM is a rare but serious lung disease that occurs when smooth muscle tissue proliferates within the interstitium of the lung in the form of characteristic thin-walled lung cysts.
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The deposits strongly stained for Congo red and, in most cases, had distinctive morphological features with diffuse involvement of the interstitium, arteries, and glomeruli.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Christopher P Larsen 2010
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Muscle tissue is composed of multinucleate myofibers surrounded by a basal lamina (extra-cellular matrix), which delineate the fibers from the interstitium consisting of vessels and connective tissue
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ara Parlakian et al. 2010
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We now have a shared language, or at least a word, for this system — or this organ, or this infrastructure (depending on whom you ask) — that’s been revealed as a fluid-filled superhighway spanning the entire body. It’s called: the interstitium.
Orion Magazine | How to Queer Ecology: One Goose at a Time Jennifer Brandel 2023
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