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rete mirabiles

rete mirabiles is the plural of rete mirabile.

Meaning of rete mirabile

Noun

rete mirabile (plural retia mirabilia)

  1. A complex of blood vessels found in some vertebrates that preserves a gradient of a certain solute or particle, originally specifically the network of arterioles at the base of the brain in some ungulates and other mammals.
    • His description of the rete mirabile, the network of arteries at the base of the brain, shows he dissected animals as well as human corpses, since it does not exist in humans.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 65

Questions about rete mirabiles

What is rete mirabiles the plural of?
Rete mirabiles is the plural of rete mirabile.

Words near rete mirabiles in the dictionary

  1. retd.
  2. rete
  3. Rete algorithm
  4. Rete algorithms
  5. rete mirabile
  6. rete mirabiles
  7. rete mirabili
  8. rete mirabilis
  9. rete testis
  10. reteach
  11. reteaches

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