Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An epidermal cell capable of synthesizing melanin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a lymphocyte, or wandering amœboid cell, containing dark pigment-granules.
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- noun A
cell in theskin that produces the pigmentmelanin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cell in the basal layer of the epidermis that produces melanin under the control of the melanocyte-stimulating hormone
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each of these cells divides into two cells: One that replaces itself and another that differentiates into a pigment-producing daughter cell called a melanocyte, which imbues hair with its browns, reds and blacks.
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Melanoma is a [[cancer]] that originates from a '' melanocyte '' ([[melanin]] - producing skin cell), and is associated with over exposure to the [[sun]] or [[UV]] [[radiation]].
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Melanoma is a [[cancer]] that originates from a '' melanocyte '' ([[melanin]] - producing skin cell), and is associated with over exposure to the [[sun]] or [[UV]] [[radiation]].
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As a new hair grows, some melanocyte stem cells become melanocytes, which give the strand its color, while others remain stem cells and store pigment for the next generation of hair.
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More of their melanocyte stem cells matured into color-producing melanocytes, depleting the store of stem cells.
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Toki Color from Lane Labs has been shown to support melanocyte production, which is responsible for forming pigment in the hair color.
The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007
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Toki Color from Lane Labs has been shown to support melanocyte production, which is responsible for forming pigment in the hair color.
The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007
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I can watch a string of neural crest cells in a zebrafish crawl out of the dorsal midline and stream over generally predictable paths to their destinations, but the actions of an individual melanocyte, for instance, are variable and beautiful to see.
Chance and regularity in the development of the fly eye - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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I can watch a string of neural crest cells in a zebrafish crawl out of the dorsal midline and stream over generally predictable paths to their destinations, but the actions of an individual melanocyte, for instance, are variable and beautiful to see.
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Her doctors never located the original, or primary, tumor, but laboratory tests eventually confirmed that all the trouble started in a pigmented cell, or melanocyte, in the skin.
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