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merkel cell

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables
merkel -cell
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An oval receptor cell having synaptic contacts with somatosensory afferents, found in the skin of vertebrates and associated with the sense of light touch discrimination of shapes and textures.

Etymology

Named after German anatomist Friedrich Sigmund Merkel.

Inflected Forms

Merkel cells (plural)

Synonyms

Merkel-Ranvier cell

Questions

What does merkel cell mean?
An oval receptor cell having synaptic contacts with somatosensory afferents, found in the skin of vertebrates and associated with the sense of light touch discrimination of shapes and textures.
Where does merkel cell come from?
Named after German anatomist Friedrich Sigmund Merkel.

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