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  1.  Marked with crossing lines, like lattice-work; separated into spaces or divisions as by cancelli.

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1681.  Grew, Musæum, I. 16 (J.). The Tail of the Castor…. Almost bald … and cancellated, with some resemblance to the Scales of Fishes.

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1800.  Young, in Phil. Trans., XCI. 55. To this I adapted a cancellated micrometer.

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1841.  Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, I. 272. Shell conical … cancellated with transverse striæ.

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  2.  spec. Having a cellular structure formed by fine interlacing fibers and plates running in all directions, and separated by minute labyrinthine cavities, as in the less compact tissue of bones.

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1836.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 443/2. The cancellated structure in which the marrow is lodged.

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1857.  Birch, Anc. Pottery (1858), II. 326. In quality from a coarse gritty and cancellated structure to a fine compact homogeneous paste.

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1881.  Jrnl. Microsc. Sc., 42. Labyrinthic or cancellated shelly growths.

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