Medical dictionary. 2011.
cell — cell1 cell like, adj. /sel/, n. 1. a small room, as in a convent or prison. 2. any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole. 3. a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the… … Universalium
Cell software development — Software development for the cell microprocessor involve a mixture of conventional development practices for the POWER architecture compatible PPU core, and novel software development challenges with regards to the functionally reduced SPU… … Wikipedia
Merkel cell — Neuron: Merkel cell Diagram of human skin. In humans, Merkel cells (yellow dot) are found clustered beneath the epidermal ridges (aka fingerprints) … Wikipedia
Alpha cell — Alpha cells are endocrine cells in the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas. They make up 15 20% of the cells in the islets. They are responsible for synthesizing and secreting the peptide hormone glucagon, which elevates the glucose levels in… … Wikipedia
reticulate cell — the larger of the two morphological forms of bacteria of the family Anaplasmataceae, characterized by a homogeneous loose matrix of chromatin strands, seen predominantly in vivo. Cf dense core c … Medical dictionary
Multiphase particle-in-cell method — The multiphase particle in cell method (MP PIC) is a numerical method for modeling particle fluid and particle particle interactions in a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculation. The MP PIC method achieves greater stability than its… … Wikipedia
Mauthner cell — The Mauthner Cells are a pair of big and easily identifiable neurons (one for each half of the body) located in the rhombomere 4 of the hindbrain in fish and amphibians that are responsible for a very fast escape reflex (in the majority of… … Wikipedia
Ammonia — For other uses, see Ammonia (disambiguation). Ammonia … Wikipedia
SYTL4 — Synaptotagmin like 4 (granuphilin a), also known as SYTL4, is a human gene.cite web | title = Entrez Gene: SYTL4 synaptotagmin like 4 (granuphilin a)| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene Cmd=ShowDetailView TermToSearch=94121|… … Wikipedia
End-plate potential — Miniature end plate potentials and end plate spikes recorded from muscle fiber End plate potentials (EPPs) (sometimes called end plate spikes ) are the depolarizations of skeletal muscle fibers caused by neurotransmitters binding to the… … Wikipedia
