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extracellular matrices

extracellular matrices is the plural of extracellular matrix.

Meaning of extracellular matrix

Noun

extracellular matrix (plural extracellular matrices)

  1. All the microscopic fibres and other molecular structures that are produced by a particular type of cell but are not part of it (that is, that lie outside its cell membrane), providing support to the cells and often serving as a co-constituent of the tissue that they constitute, especially a connective tissue.

Questions about extracellular matrices

What is extracellular matrices the plural of?
Extracellular matrices is the plural of extracellular matrix.

Words near extracellular matrices in the dictionary

  1. extracatalytic
  2. extracaveolar
  3. extracavernous
  4. extracavitary
  5. extracellular
  6. extracellular matrices
  7. extracellular matrix
  8. extracellularly
  9. extracellulase
  10. extracelomic
  11. extracentromeric

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