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cancellated, ppl. a.|ˈkænsəleɪtɪd|
[f. prec.]
1. Marked with crossing lines, like lattice-work; separated into spaces or divisions as by cancelli.
1681Grew Museum (J.) The tail of the castor is almost bald..and cancellated, with some resemblance to the scales of fishes. 1800Young in Phil. Trans. XCI. 55 To this I adapted a cancellated micrometer. 1841Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. 272 Shell conical..cancellated with transverse striæ.
2. spec. Having a cellular structure formed by fine interlacing fibres and plates running in all directions, and separated by minute labyrinthine cavities, as in the less compact tissue of bones.
1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 443 The cancellated structure in which the marrow is lodged. 1857Birch Anc. Pottery (1858) II. 326 In quality from a coarse gritty and cancellated structure to a fine compact homogeneous paste. 1881Jrnl. Microsc. Sc. 42 Labyrinthic or cancellated shelly growths. |