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noun
A mature bone cell involved with the maintenance of bone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, cytology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
mature bone cell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bone cell
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h3ésth1 Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon)der. English osteo- Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos)der. Latin cytader. English -cyte English osteocyte From osteo- (“bone”) + -cyte (“cell”).
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