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MELANOBLAST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does melanoblast mean?
• MELANOBLAST (noun)
The noun MELANOBLAST has 1 sense:
1. an epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte
Familiarity information: MELANOBLAST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("melanoblast" is a kind of...):
epidermal cell (any of the cells making up the epidermis)
Context examples
Cloned cancer gene for Familial gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), KIT proto-oncogene encodes a putative transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinase for stem cell factor and is critical in the development of pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells, migrating embryonic melanoblasts, and primordial germ cells.
(Oncogene KIT, NCI Thesaurus)
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