Definitions

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  • noun A precursor cell of a melanocyte or melanophore.

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  • noun The precursor cell of a melanocyte.

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  • noun an epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte

Etymologies

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melano- + -blast

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  • The melanoblast library (QF1160MB) had the highest number of unique sequence tags (77,261) and the melanocyte library (MELB) had the fewest (17,809) (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mitchell S. Stark et al. 2010

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