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juxtacellular

juxtacellular adjective: alongside a cell.

Adjective

juxtacellular (not comparable)

  1. Alongside a cell
    • This depth range was consistently in L4 based on juxtacellular cell fills (unpublished observations).2015, Samuel Andrew Hires et al., “Low-noise encoding of active touch by layer 4 in the somatosensory cortex”, in eLife, volume 4, →DOI

Origin of juxtacellular

From juxta- + cellular.

Questions about juxtacellular

What does juxtacellular mean?
Juxtacellular means alongside a cell.
What part of speech is juxtacellular?
Juxtacellular is an adjective.

Words near juxtacellular in the dictionary

  1. juxtacanalicular
  2. juxtacapillary
  3. juxtacapillary receptor
  4. juxtacapillary receptors
  5. juxtacapsular
  6. juxtacellular
  7. juxtacellularly
  8. juxtacentromeric
  9. juxtacentromic
  10. juxtacortical
  11. juxtacrine

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