[FRIAM] looking for a word

[Steven A Smith]

Vladimyr -

Good to hear your voice here again...

/Rete Mirable/ (Latin: miraculous net) seems to be the term/concept *I*
was looking for here. 

I don't know if it has the persuasive nature Glen is searching for, or
captures the full *diversity* of the interpenetrating "miraculous" nets,
but it is great to find out there is an extant working term for these
structures and the underlying processes supported.   I'm also happy to
hear of the term "counter-current exchange system" in place of my more
colloquial "reverse backflow system", though I was describing what is
known as a decanted system which therefore acted as a countercurrent
multiplier system. 

It is impressive that the term goes all the way back to Galen.  Yogi
Berra said it best: "You can see a lot just by looking."

I sometimes think I need to add to my google fu technique doing a simple
rendition of the concept in question into Latin and then searching for a
few variations on the result.  I'm sure there is a Masters project in
Natural Language processing or Computational Linguistics out there which
has already implemented something like that?   I doubt I would have hit
on "miraculous" in this context but maybe a Latin scholar would know
intuitively that "mirable" was a likely adjective to be used in this
kind of situation?

- Steve


On 8/22/18 6:23 PM, Vladimyr wrote:
> anastomosis(circulatory) is the progressive branching of arteries down to capillaries.
> The flow in the trunk line is accommodated by the sum of volumes downstream.
> When such a network meshes with another closed network and the fluids in each are flowing in opposite directions. a counter-current
> exchange system reduces the difference in gradients i.e. gases, heat flow.
> Rete Mirable , the miraculous network that was first discovered in Tuna used to keep the blood warm.
> There are  many such systems in the human body. 
> vladimyr
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>
> Sorry for being vague.  By "matrixification", I made an attempt to suggest something like taking a single 1-dimensional thing (a tube) and splitting it into more than one thing, each of which is still 1-dimensional, but together approaching a higher dimension (2 or 3).
>
> By "articulation", I intended something similar, taking something like a single tube and putting in *joints*, which might also provide branch points.  Two pipes connected by an angle will be more articulated than a single pipe (of the same length).  By extension, then, 3 pipes connected by a splitter will be more articulated than two pipes connected by an angle.
>
> On 08/21/2018 02:36 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
>> Matriculation does indeed seem to be related to "Matrix"  but 
>> apparently in the sense of embedding into a nourishing environment 
>> (womblike?) which makes some sense for the common use in "entering an 
>> institution such as a university or college".   I'm not sure what you 
>> meant by dimension reduction in this context?
>>
>> You also mention "articulation" but my fumble-fingers had me finding 
>> "atriculation" instead and found (only?) in an urban dictionary: 1. To 
>> funnel information down; 2.) the trickle down effect of data that will 
>> lead you to one conclusion; 3. to vett.
>
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