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CELL

Volume 5 · 86 words · 1823 Edition

in Botany, is applied to the hollow place between the partitions in the pods, husks, and other seed-vessels of plants: according as there is one, two, three, &c. of these cells, the vessel is said to be unilocular, bilocular, trilocular, &c.

CELLS, in Anatomy, little bags, or bladders, where fluids or other matters are lodged; called loculi, cellule, &c. Thus the cellular adipose are the little cells where the fat is contained; cellule in the colon, are spaces wherein the excrements are detained till voided, &c.