cells
细胞,牢房,囚室,囚房
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Definitions
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- : a small room, as in a convent or prison.
- : any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole.
- : a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the Communist party.
- : Biology. a usually microscopic structure containing nuclear and cytoplasmic material enclosed by a semipermeable membrane and, in plants, a cell wall; the basic structural unit of all organisms.
- : Entomology. one of the areas into which the wing of an insect is divided by the veins.
- : Botany. locule.
- : Electricity. Also called battery, electric cell, electrochemical cell, galvanic cell, voltaic cell. a device that generates electrical energy from chemical energy, usually consisting of two different conducting substances placed in an electrolyte.Compare dry cell. solar cell.
- : Also called electrolytic cell. Physical Chemistry. a device for producing electrolysis, consisting essentially of the electrolyte, its container, and the electrodes.
- : Aeronautics. the gas container of a balloon.
- : Ecclesiastical. a monastery or nunnery, usually small, dependent on a larger religious house.
- : Telecommunications. one of the distinct geographical areas covered by a radio transmitter in a cellular phone system.cell phone.
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- : to live in a cell: The two prisoners had celled together for three years.
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There are millions of stories that end with black boys in jail cells.
Hollywood might possibly fear North Korean sleeper cells capable of blowing up theaters that screen anti-Nork films.
The cells are austere—essentially hardened trailers—that cost about $40,000 each to build.
In fact, four of 20 cells at Cobalt were found to have bars across the cell to allow this.
African-Americans, wrote Mailer, “known down to the cells of [their] existence that life is war, nothing but war.”
Beginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.
Renal cells are abundant in parenchymatous nephritis, especially the acute form.
(a) Epithelial casts contain epithelial cells from the renal tubules.
They are cells which have been highly differentiated for the purpose of carrying oxygen from the lungs to the tissues.
Yeast-cells are smooth, colorless, highly refractive, spheric or ovoid cells.