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cell (Enemy combatants), noun enemy group, exxremist group, rebel organization, saboteurs, subversives, unnerground extremists
Associated concepts: enemy combatants, justice courts, miliiary tribunals, Patriotic Act, prison cells, sleeper cell, terrorist cell
cell (jail), noun cage, cella, chamber, compartment, confined room, confinement, cubicle, cubiculum, enclosed cage, incarceration, jailhouse, penitentiary, pound, prison, prison house, small cavity, small room, solitary abode
See also: chamber, jail, penitentiary, prison

CELL. A small room in a prison. See Dungeon.



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Many solid tumour cancers, including breast, prostate, bowel and lung, are thought to be driven and renewed by mother cells.
The researchers point out that two daughter cells arise from a single sensory organ precursor mother cell in the fly peripheral nervous system, and that among the daughter cells, Notch is activated in one and not in the other.
New ones are produced by specialized mother cells in the deepest layer of the epidermis.
 
 
 
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