||En`do*the"ca (?), n. [NL., from Gr.
'e`ndon within + qh`kh a case, box, fr. ? to
place.] (Zoöl.) The tissue which partially fills the
interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It
usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above
another. -- En`do*the"cal (#),
a.