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‖ diploe|ˈdɪpləʊiː|
[mod.L., a. Gr. διπλόη doubling, fold, overlapping of the bones of the skull (Hippocrates), f. διπλόος double.]
1. Anat. The light porous or cancellated bone-tissue lying between the hard dense inner and outer layers of the bones of the skull.
1696in Phillips (ed. 5). 1699Phil. Trans. XXI. 139 The Blood Vessels of the Diploe might be burst by some accidental blow. 1741Monro Anat Bones (ed. 3) 68 The Bones of the Cranium are composed of two bony Tables, and an intermediate cellular Substance, commonly called their Diploe. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 307 In some parts of the skull, there is naturally very little Diplöe, and in old subjects, scarce any remains. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 197 An acute inflammation of the diploē of the skull.
2. Bot. = diachyma.
1866Treas. Bot., Diploe, that part of the parenchyme of a leaf which intervenes between the two layers of epiderm. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 406 The space in the lamina of the leaf which is left free by the ribs and vascular bundles, is mainly occupied by parenchyma, which is simply called leaf-parenchyma or in the special case of flat foliage-leaves Diachyma or Diploe according to Link, Mesophyll according to De Candolle.
Hence diploˈetic a., bad form for diploic.
1883Syd. Soc. Lex., Diploetic, of, or belonging to, the Diploe. |