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Cells > Cellular Structures > Extracellular Space
Tissues > Body Fluid Compartments > Extracellular Space

Preferred term

Extracellular Space  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Intercellular Space
  • Intercellular Spaces
  • Space, Intercellular
  • Spaces, Intercellular

Scope note

  • Interstitial space between cells, occupied by INTERSTITIAL FLUID as well as amorphous and fibrous substances. For organisms with a CELL WALL, the extracellular space includes everything outside of the CELL MEMBRANE including the PERIPLASM and the cell wall.

History note

  • 1966(1964)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005110

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