subcellularadj.

1828 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 14 217 In such cases we must have much earlier recourse to incisions, by which means fascial or sub-cellular suppuration and gangrene of the parts may be prevented.

1833 London Med. Gaz. 20 July 516/1 This particular affection of the sub-cellular membrane is very commonly seen at the pylorus.

1859 H. W. Herbert Hints to Horse-keepers 201 Lacerated wounds are generally in the form of a rent rather than cut, inflicted..by the caulking of a shoe tearing off the integuments and subcellular tissue, leaving a sort of triangular flap.

1890 G. A. Stockwell Bourneville & Bricon's Man. Hypodermic Medication 52 They [sc. injections of quinine for cholera] should be intra-muscular instead of subcellular.

1910 G. H. Dadd Amer. Cattle Doctor 25 64 A horse is bloated when he becomes the subject of subcellular emphysema (distension of the cellular membrane beneath the skin with gas).

1919 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 6 278 Perhaps Heidenhain's graded series of life units, including super- as well as subcellular grades, has outdone that of Weismann.

1952 Science 14 Nov. 3/1 By microphysiology is meant the description of the functional properties of cells.., as well as the explanation of these properties in terms of subcellular components down to molecular dimensions.

1978 Sci. Amer. Dec. 68/2 Myoglobin combines with the oxygen released by red cells, stores it and transports it to the subcellular organelles called mitochondria.

2005 M. Roach Spook iii. 99 Quite a few people look at microtubules as what can be considered almost like an abacus for molecular calculation at a subcellular level.