(of fibres, cells, etc) supporting or forming a support
Word origin
C19: from Latin sustentāculum a stay, from sustentāre to support, from sustinēre to sustain
sustentacular in American English
(ˌsʌstənˈtækjələr)
adjective
Anatomy
supporting
Word origin
[1885–90; ‹ NL sustentācul(um) a support (L sustentā(re), freq. of sustinēre to sustain + -culum-cule2) + -ar1]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: lineup, scrum, sensitization, upsweep, zoom
Examples of 'sustentacular' in a sentence
sustentacular
These results suggested the renewal of sustentacular and sensorial olfactory cells through the same pathway.
Flávio Ribeiro Alves, Tatiana Carlesso Santos, Sandra Freiberger, Carlos Eduardo Ambrósio,Maria Angélica Miglino 2007, 'Dinâmica dos precursores celulares do epitélio olfatório de cães sem raça definida:um estudo imunohistoquímico e ultra-estrutural The dynamic of precursor of the olfactoryepithelium of mongrel dogs: an immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study', Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileirahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-736X2007000900006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
S100 protein was well identified in the cytoplasm and nucleus of sustentacular cells and underwent reduction in the neoplasias.
Pedro de Alcântara de Andrade Filho, Abrão Rapoport, Venâncio Avancini Ferreira Alves,Odilon Victor Porto Denardin, Josias de Andrade Sobrinho, Marcos Brasilino de Carvalho 2001, 'Paragangliomas of the head and neck: clinical, morphological and immunohistochemicalaspects', São Paulo Medical Journalhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802001000300006&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This was attributed to apoptosis and to heterophagy of effete germ line cells by the sustentacular tissue.
Robert Hanna 2015, 'Fasciola hepatica: Histology of the Reproductive Organs and Differential Effects ofTriclabendazole on Drug-Sensitive and Drug-Resistant Fluke Isolates and on Flukesfrom Selected Field Cases', Pathogenshttp://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/4/3/431. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)