cellularityn.
/ˌsɛljᵿˈlarᵻti/, U.S. /ˌsɛljəˈlɛrədi/ Originally: the state or property of being cellular (in various senses). Later also: the degree to which a tumour, organ, etc., is cellular.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] > cellular condition
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1822 London Med. Repository 17 103 All around either kidney, the circumventing texture had lost its cellularity; in the left was an oval abscess, containing pure thick pus.
1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 188 Mirbel, however, disputes the cellularity of the extine.
1849 C. Darwin in J. F. W. Herschel Man. Sci. Enq. (Lords Commissioners Admiralty) 185 The composition, thickness, and degree of cellularity of any lava-stream.
1908 Lancet 23 May 1466/1 For some reason the tissues have taken on a renewed cellularity.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xv. 390 Angiomatous tumours form a fairly definite class of growth, which by increasing cellularity pass almost imperceptibly from the benign angioma to the malignant angioblastoma.
1985 Jrnl. Surg. Res. 38 58/2 The cellularities of the spleens and the long bones of the hind legs in mice were not altered by the wound trauma.
2004 S. L. Asa in N. R. Farid Molecular Basis Thyroid Cancer ii. 26 They [sc. atypical adenomas] may have necrosis, infarction, numerous mitoses or unusual cellularity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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