squame

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /skweɪm/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
  2. A flake of dead skin tissue.
    — EGF increased proliferation and squame formation and induced keratinization in cultured MA cells, an observation heretofore not reported in rat MA cells.
  3. A squamous (scale-like) cell.
    — Here the invading cell masses of the cancer consist of short thick squames, and the nearest approach to cell nest formation may be only a whorling of those squames in the centres of the cell masses.
  4. A bony plate.
    — Most of the right temporal bone is well-preserved, with the exception of much of the zygoma and the upper edge of the temporal squame (Plate 8).

词形变化

squames plural

词源

From Latin squāma. Doublet of squama.
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