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ke·rat·i·no·some (kə-ratґĭ-no-sōm″) lamellar body.Medical dictionary. 2011.
granule — 1. A grainlike particle; a granulation; a minute discrete mass. 2. A very small pill, usually gelatin or sugar coated, containing a drug to be given in a small dose. 3. A colony of the bacterium or … Medical dictionary
body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the … Medical dictionary
lamellar body — one of the spherical granules that are formed in the upper spinous and granular layers of the skin, migrate into the cytoplasm, and then fuse with the plasma membrane to discharge their contents (bipolar phospholipids, glycoproteins, and acid… … Medical dictionary
