Zonule
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A little zone, or girdle; a zonula.
"1963, M. G. Farquar, G. E. Palade, Junctional complexes in various epithelia, The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 17, republished 2001, Joseph G. Gall, J. Richard McIntosh (editors), Landmark Papers in Cell Biology, page 261, Each tight junction is followed by an adhering zonule extending between arrows 2 and 3 and, farther away, by a desmosome marked D. A condensation of finely fibrillar material occurs mainly along the adhering zonules on each side of the bile capillary."
- 2 small beltlike zone wordnet
- 3 The zonule of Zinn.
"The rim of a small-sized lens along with zonule is clearly seen through the fully dilated pupil."
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More examples"1963, M. G. Farquar, G. E. Palade, Junctional complexes in various epithelia, The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 17, republished 2001, Joseph G. Gall, J. Richard McIntosh (editors), Landmark Papers in Cell Biology, page 261, Each tight junction is followed by an adhering zonule extending between arrows 2 and 3 and, farther away, by a desmosome marked D. A condensation of finely fibrillar material occurs mainly along the adhering zonules on each side of the bile capillary."
Etymology
Parallel with zonula, with zona + -ula being homologous to zone + -ule.
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