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cellless

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Etymology

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From cell +‎ -less.

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cellless (not comparable)

  1. (cytology) Without cells.
    • 2011 May 10, Plant Responses to Drought and Salinity stress: Developments in a Post-Genomic Era, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 187:
      Salt tolerance, salt accumulation, and ionic homeostasis in an epidermal bladder-cellless mutant of the common ice plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Journal of Experimental Botany 58, 1957. Albert, R. (1975).
    • 2019 February 22, Kholoud Kahime, Moulay Abdelmonaim El Hidan, Omar El Hiba, Denis Sereno, Lahouari Bounoua, Handbook of Research on Global Environmental Changes and Human Health, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 326:
      However, the fluxes of potassium (k+) and chlorine (Cl-) cause a hyperpolarization making the cellless excitable. The opening of these channels is either voltage-dependent or linked to a neurotransmitter (Safini, Bouskraoui, Pédiatrie, []
    • 2003, Kwang W. Jeon, International Review of Cytology: A Survey of Cell Biology, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 53:
      Germ cellless encodes a cell type-specific nuclear pore-associated protein and functions early in the germ-cell specification pathway of Drosophila. Genes Dev. 8, 2123–2136. Kasahara, K., Chida, K., Tsunenaga, M., Kohno, Y., Ikuta, T., []

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