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paucicellular

paucicellular adjective: having few (or a sparse distribution of) cells.

Adjective

paucicellular (not comparable)

  1. Having few (or a sparse distribution of) cells
    • Our study establishes, for the first time, the feasibility of detecting HIV DNA from frozen paucicellular CSF cell pellet samples using the (dd)PCR method [10 ].2015 October 3, “Comparative Analysis of Cell-Associated HIV DNA Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Peripheral Blood by Droplet Digital PCR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of paucicellular

alternative formpauci-cellular

Origin of paucicellular

From pauci- + cellular.

Questions about paucicellular

What does paucicellular mean?
Paucicellular means having few (or a sparse distribution of) cells.
What part of speech is paucicellular?
Paucicellular is an adjective.

Words near paucicellular in the dictionary

  1. pauciarthritis
  2. pauciarticular
  3. paucibaciliary
  4. paucibacillary
  5. paucibacterial
  6. paucicellular
  7. pauciclonal
  8. pauciclonality
  9. paucident planigale
  10. paucident planigales
  11. paucidentate

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