Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A precursor cell of a melanocyte or melanophore.
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- noun The precursor cell of a
melanocyte .
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- noun an epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte
Etymologies
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melano- + -blast
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The melanoblast library (QF1160MB) had the highest number of unique sequence tags (77,261) and the melanocyte library (MELB) had the fewest (17,809) (
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mitchell S. Stark et al. 2010
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