enterocyte

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
10

Definition of enterocyte

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A cell found in the lining of the intestines and colon, participating in absorption of nutrients and secretion of digestive enzymes.
    “ISCs signal to their daughters by Delta-Notch signaling to specify enterocyte versus enteroendocrine cell fate, but the pathway must remain inactive in the ISCs themselves to avoid differentiation.”

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Etymology

From entero- + -cyte.

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