used as a comb. form of CELLULE, L. cellula (for the form cf. BULBO-) forming principally adjs. used in physiology, which in sense are practically compounds of CELLULAR: e.g., cellulo-adipose, (tissue) partly cellular partly adipose; similarly cellulo-fibrous, -muscular, tendinous, -vascular; cellulo-cutaneous, pertaining jointly to the skin and subcutaneous connective tissue; cellulo-membranous, pertaining to the ‘cellular membrane’; cellulo-serous, pertaining jointly to the ‘cellular’ and ‘serous’ membranes.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 140. The disorganised cellulo-vascular structure.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 12/2. A fibrous or cellulo-fibrous expansion. Ibid. (1836), I. 178/2. A middle cellulo-tendinous raphé before and behind that intestine. Ibid. (1847–9), IV. 126/1. The cellulo-muscular structures of the limbs.
1857. Bullock, trans. Cazeaux’s Midwifery, 40. A very thick layer of cellulo-adipose tissue.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 27. Sores or ulcers … of a cellulo-membranous kind. Ibid., I. 51. Cellulo-cutaneous forms of the disease.
