Relating to or resembling a sieve; having a perforated or porous structure.
From Latin 'cribrum' (sieve) plus '-al' suffix meaning relating to. A technical term used in anatomy and materials science.
Cribral surfaces show up everywhere in biology—from the cribriform plate in your skull to the endplate of your bones—nature loves using sieve-like structures to filter and regulate!
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