"Cancellated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the older scales of the highly enamelled class, which, so far as I have yet seen, does not extend beyond the Palaeozoic period. The outer layer of the scale, which lies over a middle layer of a cellular cancellated structure, and corresponds, apparently, with that scarf-skin which in the human subject overlies the rete mucosum, is thickly set over with microscopic pores, funnel-shaped in the transverse section, and which, examined by a good glass, in the horizontal one resemble the puncturings ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller |
