noun
definition
A net; an assembly of meshes.
example
A dense meshwork structure is formed.
Examples of meshwork in a Sentence
The fluid drains back into the bloodstream through sieve-like channels called the trabecular meshwork.
Some conditions only affect the trabecular meshwork where the water in the eye drains out at the drainage gap.
In some cases it shows, when submitted to a careful examination under the highest powers of the microscope, and especially when treated with reagents of various kinds, traces of a more or less definite structure in the form of a meshwork consisting of a clear homogeneous substance containing numerous minute bodies known as microsomes, the spaces being filled by a more fluid ground-substance.
Its whereabouts is thus, to a great extent, concealed both from enemies searching for spiders and from insects suitable for food; and its open meshwork of strong threads makes it much less liable to be beaten down by rain or torn to shreds by winds than if it were a flat sheet of closely woven silk.
These often have the form of prisms of calcite surrounded by a cuti cular meshwork; the whole is nourished and kept alive by processes, which in Crania are branched; these perforate the shell and permit the access of the coelomic fluid throughout its substance.
These vascular buds grow out in various directions as little solid projections of cells; they then become channelled and form the new but temporary meshwork.