rete mirabile

Meaning

Noun

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.

Origin

From post-Classical Latin rete mirabilis (14th century).

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