Rete mirabileとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From post-Classical Latin rete mirabile (“wonderful net”) (14th century).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːti mɪˈɹɑːbɪleɪ/

名詞

rete mirabile (複数形 retia mirabilia)

1. (anatomy, zoology) 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. [from 15th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 65:

     His description of the rete mirabile, the network of arteries at the base of the brain, shows he dissected animals as well as human corpses, since it does not exist in humans.

使用する際の注意点

The following plurals are considered nonstandard: reta mirabilia, retia mirabila, rete mirabiles, rete mirabili.