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extracellular

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • CMU ARPABET: EH2 K S T R AH0 S EH1 L Y AH0 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Occurring or found outside of a cell.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective

Meaning 2

located or occurring outside a cell or cells

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • extracellular fluid

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: intracellular

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1éǵh Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h1éǵhs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h1eǵhsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā English extra- English cellular English extracellular From extra- + cellular.

Across languages

Translations

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: extracel·lular — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Czech: extracelulární — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Czech: mimobuněčný — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Finnish: solun ulkopuolinen — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Finnish: solunulkoinen — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Hungarian: extracelluláris — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Indonesian: ekstraseluler — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Indonesian: ekstrasel — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Irish: eachtarcheallach — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Italian: extracellulare — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Malay: ايکستراسيل — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Malay: ekstrasel — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Norwegian: ekstracellulær — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Polish: pozakomórkowy — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Polish: zewnątrzkomórkowy — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Romanian: extracelular — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Russian: внекле́точный (vneklétočnyj) — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Spanish: extracelular — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Swedish: extracellulär — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Ukrainian: позакліти́нний (pozaklitýnnyj) — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Ukrainian: зовнішньокліти́нний (zovnišnʹoklitýnnyj) — occurring or found outside of a cell
  • Vietnamese: ngoại bào — occurring or found outside of a cell
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