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51pigment cells — Cells that contain pigment: see melanocytes, chromatophores …
52sarcoma cells — Cells of a malignant tumour derived from connective tissue. Often given a prefix denoting tissue of origin, eg. osteosarcoma (from bone) …
53oxyntic cells — cells of the gastric glands that secrete hydrochloric acid in the fundic region of the stomach. * * * parietal c s …
54prickle cells — cells with cytoplasmic processes that form intercellular bridges. The germinative layer of the epidermis is sometimes called the prickle cell layer …
55Arias-Stella cells — cells in the endometrial epithelium which have hyperchromatic enlarged nuclei; they appear to be hypersecretory and associated with chorionic tissue in an intrauterine or extrauterine site …
56clear cells — cells with empty appearing cytoplasm, seen normally in the secretory coil of sweat glands, in the parathyroid glands, and in the lining of the renal collecting tubules and epididymis; they also occur pathologically in some neoplastic conditions …
57Custer cells — cells with long delicate protoplasmic processes replacing the lymphoid tissue of lymph nodes in various lymphoproliferative disorders …
58decidual cells — cells of the uterine endometrium that become modified and specialized during pregnancy …
59hecatomeral cells — cells of gray matter of the spinal cord whose axis cylinder processes divide and send one branch into the white substance of the same side of the cord and another into the anterolateral columns of the other side …
60HeLa cells — cells of the first continuously cultured carcinoma strain, descended from a human cervical carcinoma; used in the study of life processes, including viruses, at the cell level …
