intercellular substance

1. 1.

   the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded

   Synonymsmatrixground substance

   Broaderbody substance

   Part ofbonecartilageconnective tissue

Questions about intercellular substance

What does intercellular substance mean?

intercellular substance means "the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded".

What is another word for intercellular substance?

Close synonyms include matrix, ground substance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intercellular substance a common word?

intercellular substance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.