Usually means: Cells producing pigment in skin.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. melanocytes: Merriam-Webster
  2. melanocytes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. melanocytes: Vocabulary.com
  4. melanocytes: Wordnik
  5. melanocytes: Wiktionary
  6. melanocytes: Dictionary.com
  7. Melanocytes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Melanocytes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Melanocytes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. melanocytes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Melanocytes: Merck Manuals
  4. Melanocytes: Medical dictionary
  5. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melanocytes: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

(Note: See melanocyte as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (melanocyte)

noun:  (medicine, biochemistry, cytology) A cell in the skin that produces the pigment melanin.
▸ Also see melanocyte


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