a. [f. L. tubulāt-us TUBULATE a. + -ED1.]
1. Furnished with a tube; esp. of a retort or receiver: Having a short tube with a stopper (tubulature or tubulure), through which substances can be introduced.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. V. vii. 173. This kinde of Vessel is inferior to those tubulated Retorts.
1758. Reid, trans. Macquer’s Chym., I. 176. Some retorts are also made with an opening on their upper side, like that of tubulated glass alembics… closed … with a glass stopple.
1831. Brewster, Nat. Magic, xiii. (1833), 343. To expose nitrate of ammonia in a tubulated glass retort to the heat of an Argand’s lamp.
2. Formed into, or like, a tube; longitudinally perforated; tubular.
1713. Derham, Phys. Theol., IX. i. 437. The Teeth are tubulated, for the Conveyance … of the Poyson into the Wound.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v. Tubulated Flower, The tubulated floscules generally compose the disk [of Compositæ], and the ligulated ones the radius of the compound flowers.
1774. Pringle, Torpedo, 28. Those singular tubulated organs of the torpedo consist … of many bodies of a prismatic form.
1859. Semple, Diphtheria, 96. Some slender and tubulated fragments of false membranes, mixed with mucus, were expelled.
So Tubulation [ad. L. tubulātiōn-em, n. of action f. tubul-us, TUBULE, as if from *tubulāre], the process of making or becoming tubular; Tubulature [see -URE], the tube of a tubulated retort: = TUBULURE.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tubilation [ed. 1674 Tubulation] (tubulatio), a making hollow like pipes.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., vii. (1842), 201. The tubulature is safest when it is not much thicker than the retort at the part where they join, but should thicken upwards.
1855. Q. Jrnl. Chem. Soc., VII. 98. The liquid … was placed in a retort with a thermometer in the tubulature.
1866. Reader, No. 163. 154/1. Pseudopodial tubulation.
