"lactocyte" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lactocytes [plural]
Etymology: lacto- + -cyte Etymology templates: {{confix|en|lacto|cyte}} lacto- + -cyte Head templates: {{en-noun}} lactocyte (plural lactocytes)
  1. A milk-producing cell in the mammary epithelium.

Inflected forms

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