Words ending with cyte
4 letter words ending with cyte
- cyte — Obsolete spelling of city.
6 letter words ending with cyte
- oocyte — an immature egg cell of the animal ovary; in humans, one oocyte matures during the menstrual cycle, becoming an ootid and then an ovum, while several others partially mature and then disintegrate.
7 letter words ending with cyte
- myocyte — a contractile cell, especially an elongated cell in sponges that forms a sphincter around body openings.
8 letter words ending with cyte
9 letter words ending with cyte
- adipocyte — a fat cell that accumulates and stores fats
- amebocyte — any cell capable of moving like an amoeba, esp. one that floats freely in the blood or other body fluids, such as a white blood corpuscle
- astrocyte — any of the star-shaped cells in the tissue supporting the brain and spinal cord (neuroglia)
- athrocyte — a cell that is able to receive and store matter
- coenocyte — a mass of protoplasm containing many nuclei and enclosed by a cell wall: occurs in many fungi and some algae
10 letter words ending with cyte
- akaryocyte — A cell that has no nucleus.
- amoebocyte — any cell having properties similar to an amoeba, such as shape, mobility, and ability to engulf particles
- archeocyte — (in sponges) a type of amoebocyte capable of developing into other types of cells, especially reproductive cells.
- choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
- enterocyte — A cell of the intestinal lining.
11 letter words ending with cyte
- acanthocyte — an abnormal red blood cell having spiny projections, found in the blood of persons with abetalipoproteinemia and certain malabsorption disorders.
- archaeocyte — (in sponges) a type of amoebocyte capable of developing into other types of cells, especially reproductive cells.
- chondrocyte — A cell that makes up the tissue of cartilage.
- electrocyte — A modified muscle or nerve cell that generates electricity in the electric organ of certain fishes.
- erythrocyte — A red blood cell that (in humans) is typically a biconcave disc without a nucleus. Erythrocytes contain the pigment hemoglobin, which imparts the red color to blood, and transport oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from the tissues.
12 letter words ending with cyte
- agranulocyte — a white blood cell without granules in its cytoplasm
- b-lymphocyte — a type of lymphocyte, originating in bone marrow, that produces antibodies
- keratinocyte — An epidermal cell that produces keratin.
- reticulocyte — a very young red blood cell, sampled as a measure of red blood cell formation; reticulated erythrocyte.
- spermatocyte — a male germ cell (primary spermatocyte) that gives rise by meiosis to a pair of haploid cells (secondary spermatocytes) that give rise in turn to spermatids.
13 letter words ending with cyte
- megacaryocyte — Alternative form of megakaryocyte.
- megakaryocyte — a large bone-marrow cell having a lobulate nucleus, regarded as the source of blood platelets.
- megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
14 letter words ending with cyte
- antilymphocyte — (immunology, of an antibody) That acts against lymphocytes.
- microsporocyte — one of the mother cells that produce four microspores by meiosis.
15 letter words ending with cyte
- megalokaryocyte — Megakaryocyte.
- microgametocyte — a gametocyte that produces microgametes
- oligodendrocyte — A glial cell similar to an astrocyte but with fewer protuberances, concerned with the production of myelin in the central nervous system.
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