Retinaculum vs Reticulum - What's the difference?
retinaculum | reticulum |
(anatomy) A connecting band.
(anatomy) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
(zoology) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
(zoology) A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.
(botany) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
(Webster 1913)
(constellation) A small constellation of the southern summer sky, said to resemble a reticle. It lies between the constellations of Horologium and Dorado.
(Chinese, constellation) Classified as two of 23 "Southern Asterisms" (?????, Jìnnánjíx?ngq? )
As nouns the difference between retinaculum and reticulum
is that retinaculum is (anatomy) a connecting band while reticulum is reticulum.retinaculum
English
Noun
(retinacula)- the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves