plasmodesman.

1902 Bot. Gaz. 33 79 Strasburger..has taken up the whole subject of protoplasmic continuity in plant cells. He proposes the term Plasmodesmen for the connecting fibers.]

1905 Amer. Naturalist 39 220 He [sc. Strasburger (1901)] considered the protoplasmic connections as sufficiently clearly differentiated structures to rank as organs of the cell and proposed for them the name plasmodesmen.

1910 Science 27 May 839/1 The ‘plasmodesmata’ of Held and Paton, connecting myotome and neural tube, are not primary intercellular bridges, but are secondary connections of medullary origin.

1925 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 3) i. 104 Plasmodesms or cell-bridges are of general occurrence in the epithelial tissues.

1935 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 118 159 The question, whether the plasmodesmata are actually incorporated into the substance of the axones, or whether they constitute merely a lattice upon which the young nerve fibres are supported [etc.].

1966 Protoplasma 61 82 In longitudinal sections of the plasmodesms the real continuity of the cytoplasmic membranes can be observed.

1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 26 In parenchyma cells, the cell wall is uniformly thin except in areas with dense plasmodesmata, the primary pit field, where it is even thinner.