cellular : Idioms & Phrases


cellular division

  • noun the process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells
    cell division.
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cellular inclusion

  • noun any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)
    inclusion; inclusion body.
    • an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell
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cellular phone

  • noun a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
    cell; cellular phone; mobile phone; cellphone.
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Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams

  • (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ.
Webster 1913

cellular respiration

  • noun the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs
    internal respiration; respiration.
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cellular slime mold

  • noun differing from true slime molds in being cellular and nucleate throughout the life cycle
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cellular telephone

  • noun a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
    cell; cellular phone; mobile phone; cellphone.
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  • a portable radio-telephone transmitting and receiving the radio-telephonic signals from one of a group of transmitter-receiver stations so arranged that they provide adequate signal contact for such telephones over a certain geographical area. The area within which one transmitter may service such portable telephones is called its "cell.
Webster 1913

Cellular theory, ∨ Cell theory

  • (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential element of every tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants ans animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicating with each other.
Webster 1913

Cellular tissue

  • . (a) (Anat.) See conjunctive tissue under Conjunctive. (b) (Bot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts.
Webster 1913