melanocyte
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melanocyte (plural melanocytes)
- (medicine, biochemistry, cytology) A cell in the skin that produces the pigment melanin.
- 1905, Willy Edward Alexander Wyman, Catechism of the Principles of Veterinary Surgery, page 06:
- As previously stated, it is pigmented, this pigmentation depending upon the so-called melanocytes.
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pigment cell
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- melanocyte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia