cancellated, ppl. a.
(ˈkænsəleɪtɪd)
[f. prec.]
1. Marked with crossing lines, like lattice-work; separated into spaces or divisions as by cancelli.
| 1681 Grew Museum (J.) The tail of the castor is almost bald..and cancellated, with some resemblance to the scales of fishes. 1800 Young in Phil. Trans. XCI. 55 To this I adapted a cancellated micrometer. 1841 Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. 272 Shell conical..cancellated with transverse striæ. |
2. spec. Having a cellular structure formed by fine interlacing fibres and plates running in all directions, and separated by minute labyrinthine cavities, as in the less compact tissue of bones.
| 1836 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 443 The cancellated structure in which the marrow is lodged. 1857 Birch Anc. Pottery (1858) II. 326 In quality from a coarse gritty and cancellated structure to a fine compact homogeneous paste. 1881 Jrnl. Microsc. Sc. 42 Labyrinthic or cancellated shelly growths. |