stichocyte

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a group of glandular cells arranged in a row along the posterior portion of the oesophagus, each of which communicates by a single pore with the lumen.

Word forms

stichocyte stichocytes

Etymology

From sticho- + -cyte.

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