literal. A small rounded swelling or bulge: (a) each of the minute rounded cells of various fungi or microbes, as the yeast-plant and certain…

Extended uses. Biology and Pathology. A layer of parallel, often columnar cells, typically arranged around the periphery of the structure of which…

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the arrangement of cells in a tissue or organ, spec. that of nerve cells in layers in the cerebral cortex (cf. cytoarchitectonics n.).

A continuous linear series of material objects. Bacteriology. A series of cells joined end to end.

(with plural agreement) = cytoarchitecture n.; (with singular agreement) the study of cytoarchitecture.

Biology and Pathology. Arrangement of cells in a palisade; an instance of this.