Definition of Cell-like

1. Adjective. Resembling a cell.

Similar to: Cellular

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cell-like

celiosalpingectomy
celiosalpingotomy
celioscopy
celiotomy incision
celiprolol
celitis
cell
cell-adhesion molecule
cell-adhesion molecules
cell-bound antibody
cell-free
cell-free extract
cell-free protein synthesis
cell-free system
cell-like (current term)
cell-mediated immune response
cell-mediated immunity
cell-mediated reaction
cell-phones
cell-wall
cell adhesion
cell adhesion kinase
cell adhesion molecule
cell adhesion molecules
cell aggregation
cell aging
cell behaviour
cell biology
cell body

Literary usage of Cell-like

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life and Labours of Albany Fonblanque by Albany William Fonblanque, Edward Barrington De Fonblanque (1874)
"He is obliged to coil himself up in his cell like an eel in a bottle. He has no blood to the head—his head is so far off that the blood cannot get there. ..."

2. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1874)
"The pyriform spermatic particles of Strongylus auricularis, which have a short peduncle, as well as the round, cell-like, and nucleated ones of Ascaris ..."

3. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"... cell-like bodies develop in the interior, an alimentary canal becomes visible, and the rudiments of generative organs can be traced. ..."

4. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1870)
"26-28, are in dimensions considerably larger than the yellow granules with their surrounding cell-like structures of Fig. 29—or, as I would in other words ..."

5. Circulars by Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University (1900)
"From the marginal cell of one of the lower segments is developed the sporocarp by the formation of a two sided apical cell like that of the leaf. ..."

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