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CANAL MEDULLAIRE [3 records]

Record 1 2021-05-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Fibre Crops
CONT

Cotton fibre has a fibrillar structure which consists of a primary wall, a secondary wall and a lumen ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Culture des plantes textiles
CONT

La fibre végétale peut être représentée schématiquement comme un tube, avec en son centre le lumen, un canal vide permettant le transfert de la sève et de l'eau [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
  • Cultivo de plantas textiles
DEF

Cavidad o espacio interior de estructuras tubulares.

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Record 2 2021-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mammals
  • Wool Industry
DEF

The innermost of the three layers of a mammalian hair.

CONT

Rarely found in fine wools, the medulla comprises a series of cells (similar to honeycombs) that provide air spaces, giving wool its thermal insulation value.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mammifères
  • Industrie lainière
CONT

[Le poil] possède un canal médullaire important recouvert d'une enveloppe (cuticule) tandis que la laine peut contenir un canal médullaire très petit et plus fin ou même voire ne pas en posséder.

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Bones and Joints
Universal entry(ies)
cavitas medullaris
Latin
A02.0.00.037
classification system code, see observation
DEF

... a tubelike hollow space in the diaphysis of a long bone ... filled with [lipid-rich] yellow marrow.

OBS

medullary cavity; marrow cavity: terms derived from the Terminologia Anatomica.

OBS

A02.0.00.037: Terminologia Anatomica identifying number.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Os et articulations
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
cavitas medullaris
Latin
A02.0.00.037
classification system code, see observation
DEF

[...] espace cylindrique creux à l'intérieur de la diaphyse [d'un os long,] qui contient la moelle osseuse jaune lipidique.

OBS

cavité médullaire : terme dérivé de la Terminologia Anatomica.

OBS

A02.0.00.037 : numéro d'identification de la Terminologia Anatomica.

Spanish

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