0 the smallest basic unit of a plant or animal --
1 a small room with not much furniture, especially in a prison or a monastery or convent --
2 a device for producing electrical energy from chemical energy --
3 a cell phone : --
Call me on my cell.
4 a small part of something: --
the cells of a honeycomb
5 a small group that is part of a political movement, especially one that is secret or plans violent action: --
a terrorist cell
Cytoskeletal integrity in interphase cells requires protein phosphatase activity.
Free parasites were also observed outside the cells.
One volume of packed cells was used to adsorb 9 volumes of serum.
As is the case in most animal cells, the 6-phosphofructokinase reaction appears to be the rate-limiting step in glycolysis of the filarial worm.
Numerous protrusions of lymph were observed in the cytoplasm of these juxta-pharyngeal cells.
The absence of muscle cells at the extreme tips of the worms was confirmed in transverse sections.
Likewise, the region of the vitellaria was teased with a fine needle and vitelline cells were collected with a micropipette.
The spirochaete stage occurs in the coelomic fluid of the tick, but not within its body cells.