vanadocyte
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The blood cell of sea squirts, containing hemovanadin rather than hemoglobin.
Example Sentences
- "Henze (1913 a) was able to localize the vanadium chromogen in certain blood cells which he designated as morulae (Maulbeerformen). […] This type of cell, which, as will be shown later, is probably confined to the Ascidiidae and Perophoridae, is hereinafter referred to as a "vanadocyte", in order to distinguish it from other types of morulae which do not possess the properties just described."
- "Such a solution would be expected to be an extremely complex mixture of molecules with possibility of artifact formation between vanadocyte vanadium and ligands originating from other cell types."
- "Vanadium can be stored in such an unusual form because of a reducing and complexing bright yellow pigment called tunichrome-B1, which is found in active blood cells called vanadocytes."