cyte

UK /sʌɪt/ US /saɪt/

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Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”).

The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.

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Obsolete form of city.

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The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.

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