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Definition of Melanoblast
1. Noun. An epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte.
Definition of Melanoblast
1. Noun. The precursor cell of a melanocyte. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Melanoblast
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Melanoblast
1. A cell derived from the neural crest; it migrates to various parts of the body early in embryonic life, and then becomes a mature melanocyte capable of forming melanin. Origin: melano-+ G. Blastos, germ, sprout (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melanoblast
Literary usage of Melanoblast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"... although the round shape, loss of prickles, and retraction of cytoplasm identify
the nature of the cell as a melanoblast. Kreibich looks upon the vacuo- ..."
2. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"... have led Ehrmann and Ribbert to maintain the origin from the highly specialized
mesodermal cell, the melanoblast or chromato- phore, and to attribute ..."
3. The Principles of Pathologic Histology by Frank Burr Mallory (1914)
"The type cell is the melanoblast or pigment cell which occurs (a) in the skin
and in the mucous membranes derived from it, (b) in the iris and choroid of ..."
4. Skin and Venereal Diseases (1918)
"Bloch, therefore, can not see his way to accept as absolutely proved the teaching
of Kreibich that "the melanoblast is ..."
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