释义 |
ˈcollencyte Zool. [f. Gr. κόλλα glue, ἐν in, κύτος hollow, receptacle.] Sollas's proposed term for the corpuscles of connective tissue found embedded in the collenchyme in the mesoderm of sponges. Hence collencytal, a.
1887W. J. Sollas Sponges in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 419/2 The mesoderm..in its commonest and simplest form consists of a clear colourless gelatinous matrix in which irregularly branching stellate cells or connective tissue corpuscles are embedded; these may be termed collencytes and the tissue collenchyme. |