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• Cell — The basic structural and functional unit in people and all living things. Each cell is a small container of chemicals and water wrapped in a membrane. Each cell in the human body there are 100 trillion cells in each of us contains the entire… …   Medical dictionary

• myoid — 1. Resembling muscle. 2. One of the fine, contractile, threadlike protoplasmic elements found in certain epithelial cells in lower animals. 3. A contractile part of retinal cones in certain fish and amphibia. In mammals, the m. is the inner part… …   Medical dictionary

• visual cell myoid — the basophilic inner region of the inner segment of the dendritic process of a retinal rod or cone, lying between the ellipsoid and the soma, and containing agranular endoplasmic reticulum and free ribosomes …   Medical dictionary

• MLANA — Melan A, also known as MLANA, is a human gene.cite web | title = Entrez Gene: MLANA melan A| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene Cmd=ShowDetailView TermToSearch=2315| accessdate = ] PBB Summary section title = summary text =… …   Wikipedia

• ellipsoid — 1. A spherical or spindle shaped condensation of phagocytic macrophages in a reticular stroma investing the wall of the splenic arterial capillaries shortly before they release their blood in the cords of red pulp. 2. The outer end of the inner …   Medical dictionary