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adjective

Cellular adj.

1.

Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.

2.

Porous; containing cavities.

3.

Pertaining to or using a system of transmission of telephone signals by radio, in which areas are divided into geographical parts (cells), each of which is served by a transmitter whose range is limited to that region, thus permitting a single transmission frequency to be used simulataneously in different parts of the same area. Cellular telephones are typically small and battery powered, allowing a subscriber with such a telephone to carry the telephone in a pocket or purse, over the entire area served, and to be contacted by a single telephone number. The system became widespread and popular in the 1980's and 1990's; as, cellular telephones sometimes lose their link unpredictably.

Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algae.

Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential element of every tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants and animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicating with each other.

Cellular tissue.

(a)

(Anat.) See conjunctive tissue under Conjunctive.

(b)

(Bot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts.

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Etymology of 'Cellular'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... which needed quiet for the true formation of its substance, as a cooling liquefaction or an evaporating solution for the just formation of its crystals, became in danger of settling into an abnormal arrangement of the cellular deposits. ...

— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald

... body coagulate at a much lower temperature than the white of the egg (as the myosin, one of the albumens of the muscle which coagulates at 115 deg. F., egg white coagulating at 158 deg. F.), and in addition to such coagulation or without it the ferments within the cell and to the action of which cellular activity is due ...

— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman

... ecstatic contemplation, I was recalled to myself by a most extraordinary pain which I felt in the interior of the ears and in the maxillary glands. This I attributed to the dilation of the air contained in the cellular tissue of the organ as much as to the cold outside. I was in my vest, with my head uncovered. I immediately covered my head with a bonnet of wool which was at my feet, but the pain only disappeared with my descent to ...

— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion

... whole truth? Evolution is a radical process, but we must never forget that it is also, and at the same time, exceedingly conservative. The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were formed ages on ages ago; they have all persisted. Most of our organs are as old as worms. All these are very old, older than the mountains, and yet I cannot doubt that they must last as long as man exists. Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive ...

— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler

... explained by the doctrine of suggestion, the mental energy of the healer being transmitted as a therapeutic impulse from his subjective mind through the medium of the nerves to the affected cells of the patient's body, connection being established by so-called cellular rapport, that is, "by bringing into physical contact the nerve-terminals of the ...

— Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery • Robert Means Lawrence

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