\Can*cel"li\, n. pl. [L., a lattice. See {Cancel}, v.
t.]
1. An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework,
   rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of
   justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or
   in a window.

2. (Anat.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the
   elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp.
   in their articular extremities.