What is meant by 'topologically continuous' in the context of cell compartmentalisation?
What &quot;topologically continuous&quot; appears to mean in this context is that materials can flow between them.
So far as I am aware, this is not a well-defined mathematical term, which is part of what makes this confusing. In topology, some spaces are continuous and others are not, but the meaning of &quot;continuous&quot; in topology is rather more general than the authors usage here.