cell-like
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- adjective
- An orb usually looks like, you know, like you learn in biology a cell like with the cell wall and it will have like and opaqueness to it with color.
- cell-like structure
- cell-like room
- small cell-like
Examples
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As long as we have large enough incubators, we can generate hair cell like cells, cells that look like hair cells that express genes that hair cells have.
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They found Father John sitting propped up on a mound of pillows in a small, cell-like room.
Fiction book (2000) -
The alternative would be to pick a cell like this, in which case the extra lattice point gets caught in the centre of one of the faces.
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The vesicles look remarkably cell-like.
Academic text (2013) -
But but yeah, that's it's neurons are cells like other cells and they have to do all the, you know, respiratory things that other cells have to do.
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Indeed, an oddity of the structure is its many cell-like bedrooms, two of which Olympia and her father occupy and three of which have been connected for her mother's use.
Fiction book (2002) -
It is a uniquely modern form of cellular isolation and association that finds expression in the cell-like arrangement of seats in the theater itself.
Academic text (1998) -
Having established appropriate growth conditions for the directed differentiation of adult stem cells toward hair cells, Li et al. attempted to determine if embryonic stem cells could also differentiate into hair-cell-like cells.
Academic text (2004) -
Wrapped in darkness, ranged in cell-like seats, directed toward the source of emotion by their softer side, the sensibilities of the entire auditorium converge, as if in a funnel, toward the film.
Academic text (1998) -
The scientists observed cell-like structures forming in the laboratory culture.
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Etymology
Cell-like starts with cell, from Latin cella meaning 'small room', and ends with -like, which means 'similar to'. So cell-like describes something that looks or works like a cell, a small separate part or space.