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pinacocyte

pinacocyte noun: any of a group of flattened polygonal cells that together make up the pinacoderm in the dermal epithelium of sponges.

Noun

pinacocyte (plural pinacocytes)

  1. Any of a group of flattened polygonal cells that together make up the pinacoderm in the dermal epithelium of sponges.
    • Minchin (1896, 1898, 1908) also concluded that the pinacocytes could leave the dermal epithelium and become calcoblasts in both larva and adult sponge.1961, Contributions to Marine Science, University of Wales Marine Science Laboratories, page 3
    • As you can see in Fig 27.7, sponges have only three types of cells in their bodies: pinacocytes (epithelial cells), choanocytes (collar cells) and amoebocytes (amoeboid cells).1992, Martin Rowland, Biology, page 626

Forms of pinacocyte

pluralpinacocytes

Origin of pinacocyte

From pinaco(derm) + -cyte.

Words formed from pinacocyte

Questions about pinacocyte

What does pinacocyte mean?
Pinacocyte means any of a group of flattened polygonal cells that together make up the pinacoderm in the dermal epithelium of sponges.
What part of speech is pinacocyte?
Pinacocyte is a noun.
What is the plural of pinacocyte?
The plural of pinacocyte is pinacocytes.

Words near pinacocyte in the dictionary

  1. pinachrome
  2. pinacidil
  3. pinacle
  4. pinacles
  5. pinacocytal
  6. pinacocyte
  7. pinacocytes
  8. pinacocytic
  9. pinacoderm
  10. pinacodermal
  11. pinacoderms

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