RETE (retia)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: retia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rete mean? 

• RETE (noun)
  The noun RETE has 1 sense:

1. a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels

  Familiarity information: RETE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

plexus; rete

Hypernyms ("rete" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rete"):

aortic plexus (a plexus of lymph nodes in the lower portion of the abdominal aorta)

nerve plexus (a network of intersecting nerves)

choroid plexus; plexus choroideus (a vascular plexus of the cerebral ventricles that regulate intraventricular pressure)

lumbar plexus; plexus lumbalis (a lymphatic plexus located along the lower portion of the aorta and iliac vessels)

pterygoid plexus (a plexus of veins draining the region of the pterygoid muscles and draining into the internal maxillary and anterior facial veins)

rete testis (network of tubules carrying sperm from the seminiferous tubules to the vasa efferentia)

 Context examples 

A Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor characterized by the presence of spaces that resemble rete testis (retiform elements).

(Ovarian Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor with Retiform Elements, NCI Thesaurus)

A Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor of the ovary in which anastomosing, slit-like spaces resembling rete testis constitute at least 90% of the tumor elements.

(Ovarian Retiform Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)