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vanadocyte

vanadocyte noun: the blood cell of sea squirts, containing hemovanadin rather than hemoglobin.

Noun

vanadocyte (plural vanadocytes)

  1. The blood cell of sea squirts, containing hemovanadin rather than hemoglobin.
    • Henze (1913 a) was able to localize the vanadium chromogen in certain blood cells which he designated as morulae (Maulbeerformen). […] This type of cell, which, as will be shown later, is probably confined to the Ascidiidae and Perophoridae, is hereinafter referred to as a "vanadocyte", in order to...1939, DA Webb, Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 16, page 499
    • Such a solution would be expected to be an extremely complex mixture of molecules with possibility of artifact formation between vanadocyte vanadium and ligands originating from other cell types.2012, Poul Schever, Marine Natural Products V3: Chemical And Biological Perspectives

Forms of vanadocyte

pluralvanadocytes

Questions about vanadocyte

What does vanadocyte mean?
Vanadocyte means the blood cell of sea squirts, containing hemovanadin rather than hemoglobin.
What part of speech is vanadocyte?
Vanadocyte is a noun.
What is the plural of vanadocyte?
The plural of vanadocyte is vanadocytes.

Words near vanadocyte in the dictionary

  1. vanadiumlike
  2. vanadiums
  3. vanadoan
  4. vanadocene
  5. vanadocenes
  6. vanadocyte
  7. vanadocytes
  8. vanadoenzyme
  9. vanadoenzymes
  10. vanadomalayaite
  11. vanadomolybdate

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