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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the elongated, striated cells of the seminiferous tubules of the testis, to which spermatids attach for nourishment during spermatogenesis.
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- noun A kind of
sustentacular cell which serves as a "nurse" cell of the testes and which is part of aseminiferous tubule .
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- noun elongated cells found in the seminiferous tubules of the testis; apparently they nourish the spermatids
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Enrico Sertoli, (1842–1910), Italian histologist.]
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Named for Enrico Sertoli, who published the first description of these cells in 1865.
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