RETIC'ULAR, adjective [supra.] Having the form of a net or of net-work; formed with interstices; as a reticular body or membrane. In anatomy, the reticular body, or rete mucosum, is the layer of the skin, intermediate between the cutis and the cuticle, the principal seat of color in man; the reticular membrane is the same as the cellular membrane.
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