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Cell — The basic structural and functional unit in people and all living things. Each cell is a small container of chemicals and water wrapped in a membrane. Each cell in the human body there are 100 trillion cells in each of us contains the entire… … Medical dictionary
syncytiotrophoblastic cell — a type of large, multinucleate cell resembling a syncytiotrophoblast, having hyperchromatic nuclei and abundant eosinophilic, sometimes vacuolated, cytoplasm; one of the cell types that compose a choriocarcinoma. Cf. cytotrophoblastic c … Medical dictionary
cytotrophoblast — The inner layer of the trophoblast. SYN: Langhans layer. * * * cy·to·tro·pho·blast .sīt ə trō fə .blast n the inner cellular layer of the trophoblast of an embryonic placental mammal that gives rise to the plasmodial syncytiotrophoblast covering… … Medical dictionary
membrane — 1. A thin sheet or layer of pliable tissue, serving as a covering or envelope of a part, as the lining of a cavity, as a partition or septum, or to connect two structures. SYN: membrana [TA]. 2. SYN: biomembrane. [L. membrana, a skin or m … Medical dictionary
HAND1 — Heart and neural crest derivatives expressed 1, also known as HAND1, is a human gene.cite web | title = Entrez Gene: HAND1 heart and neural crest derivatives expressed 1| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene Cmd=ShowDetailView… … Wikipedia
villus — 1. A projection from the surface, especially of a mucous membrane. If the projection is minute, as from a cell surface, it is termed a microvillus. 2. An elongated dermal papilla projecting into an intraepidermal … Medical dictionary
