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pinacocytes

pinacocytes is the plural of pinacocyte.

Meaning of pinacocyte

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

Questions about pinacocytes

What is pinacocytes the plural of?
Pinacocytes is the plural of pinacocyte.

Words near pinacocytes in the dictionary

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

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