SOMATIC CELL
Definition:
- [noun] any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes; "somatic cells are produced from preexisting cells";
Synonyms: vegetative cell
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Related Words:
- skin cell
- epithelial cell
- neoplastic cell
- bone cell
- blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle
- phagocyte, scavenger cell
- visual cell
- fat cell, adipose cell
- muscle cell, muscle fiber, muscle fibre
- Schwann cell
- nerve cell, neuron
- neurogliacyte, neuroglial cell, glial cell
- hybridoma
- mast cell, mastocyte, labrocyte
- stem cell
- target cell
