RETE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: retia

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

plexus; rete

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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)