Usually means: Bone cell, maintains mineral concentration.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. osteocyte: Merriam-Webster
  2. osteocyte: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. osteocyte: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. osteocyte: Collins English Dictionary
  5. osteocyte: Vocabulary.com
  6. osteocyte: Wiktionary
  7. osteocyte: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. osteocyte: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. osteocyte: Dictionary.com
  10. Osteocyte: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. osteocyte: Rhymezone
  12. osteocyte: FreeDictionary.org
  13. osteocyte: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. osteocyte: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. osteocyte: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. osteocyte: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Osteocyte: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. osteocyte: Medical dictionary
  7. Osteocyte: Drug Medical Dictionary
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (osteocyte)

▸ noun:  (cytology) A mature bone cell involved with the maintenance of bone.

Similar:
osteoclast, osteoblast, preosteocyte, octeocyte, blast cell, dendrocyte, mesenchymocyte, apocyte, telocyte, myelocyte, more...

Opposite:
osteoclast, chondrocyte, myocyte

Phrases:
osteocyte lacuna, osteocyte osteoblast pump, surface osteocyte, more...

Adjectives:
mature, osteoblast, young, single, interior

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Similar:
osteoclast, osteoblast, preosteocyte, octeocyte, blast cell, dendrocyte, mesenchymocyte, apocyte, telocyte, myelocyte, more...

Opposite:
osteoclast, chondrocyte, myocyte

Phrases:
osteocyte lacuna, osteocyte osteoblast pump, surface osteocyte, more...

Adjectives:
mature, osteoblast, young, single, interior



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