sustentacular

English

Etymology

See sustenance. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Adjective

sustentacular (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Serving to support or sustain.

   A sustentacular tissue

   • 1998 [Kluwer Academic], Julian Lombardi, Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction, 1998, Softcover reprint, Springer, page 122,

     During spermiogenesis, the highly specialized sustentacular cells provide support and protection during the transformative process.

   • 2001, Leslie Michaels, Henrik B. Hellquist, Ear, Nose and Throat Histopathology, 2nd edition, Springer, page 72:

     Normal paraganglionic tissue contains two types of cell: chief or type I cells, which are neuroendocrine cells, and sustentacular or type II cells, which are not neuroendocrine, but contain S-100 protein.

   • 2008, Lilian P. Bergqvist, “6: Postcranial Skeleton of the Upper Paleocene (Itaboraian) "Condylarthra" (Mammalian) of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil”, in Eric J. Sargis, Marian Dagosto, editors, Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology, Springer, page 128:

     The sustentacular facet is anteroposteriorly elongate and, in some specimens, achieves very broad contact with the navicular facet, while in others only with the cuboid facet.

Translations

serving to support or sustain

• Finnish: tuki-
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• German: sustentakulär
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• Romanian: sustentacular
• Spanish: sustentacular

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sustentacular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)