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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cell culture that is derived from one cell or set of cells of the same type and in which under certain conditions the cells proliferate indefinitely in the laboratory.
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- noun genetics A biological
tissue or group of individualcells that aregenetically identical as a result of dividingmitotically from a singleprogenitor cell.
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