Usually means: Reservoir for storing water, fluids.
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  1. cisterna: Merriam-Webster
  2. cisterna: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. cisterna: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cisterna: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cisterna: Wordnik
  6. cisterna: Wiktionary
  7. cisterna: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cisterna: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. cisterna: Dictionary.com
  10. Cisterna (disambiguation), Cisterna: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. cisterna: Rhymezone
  12. cisterna: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. cisterna: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cisterna: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. cisterna: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cisterna: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. cisterna: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. cisterna: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  5. cisterna: Medical dictionary

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  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cisterna)

▸ noun:  (biology) Any of the various membranes sections comprising some organelles like the Golgi apparatus and the endoplasmic reticulum.

Similar:
cistern, vesicle, cell membrane, cell, cytocyst, cytostome, cystosome, endocyst, organelle, syncitium, more...

Types:
endoplasmic, sarcoplasmic, nuclear, golgi, lysosomal, peroxisomal, secretory, mitochondrial, more...

Phrases:
cisterna magna, perinuclear cisterna, terminal cisterna, cisterna basalis, cisterna chyli, more...

Adjectives:
perinuclear, golgi, terminal, single, endoplasmic, most, subsurface, trans, hypolemmal, inner, nuclear



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Similar:
cistern, vesicle, cell membrane, cell, cytocyst, cytostome, cystosome, endocyst, organelle, syncitium, more...

Types:
endoplasmic, sarcoplasmic, nuclear, golgi, lysosomal, peroxisomal, secretory, mitochondrial, more...

Phrases:
cisterna magna, perinuclear cisterna, terminal cisterna, cisterna basalis, cisterna chyli, Battle of Cisterna, more...

Adjectives:
perinuclear, golgi, terminal, single, endoplasmic, most, subsurface, trans, hypolemmal, inner, nuclear



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