lymphoreticularadj.

1942 Hadfield & Garrod Recent Adv. Path. (ed. 4) iv. 37 If the fixed and stable connective tissues such as..bone, cartilage and muscle be excluded, the remaining mesenchyme of the adult is composed of a cellular highly reactive tissue rich in fertile cells such as that found in the hæmopoietic marrow and spleen. In each of these situations the basic structure is a loose reticulum of cells richly supplied with capillary sinusoids. This tissue may, as was suggested by Maximow, be called the reticular or lympho-reticular system. Aschoff's reticulo-endothelial system of phagocytic cells thus forms only a part of Maximow's reticular system.

1958 W. St. C. Symmers in R. W. Raven Cancer II. xxiv. 448 The lymphoid tissue and the so-called reticuloendothelial system are so intimately associated, anatomically, functionally, and in disease, that it is appropriate to consider them together as the lymphoreticular system (LRS).

1968 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxvii. 2/2 The organs of the lymphoreticular system consist of the lymph nodes, spleen and bone marrow.

1970 Walter & Israel Gen. Path. (ed. 3) xxx. 649 Reticulo-endothelial organs..are also sometimes described as the lymphoreticular tissues because of their reticulin framework and the predominance of lymphocytes.

1974 R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery ii. 31 Reticuloses... The name signifies proliferation of the lymphoid and lymphoreticular tissue.

1984 J. F. Lamb et al. Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) iv. 76 The fixed scavenger cells are found in a system of lymphoreticular organs which consist of thin-walled supporting tubes with the phagocyte cells in their walls.