"somatic cell" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: somatic cells [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} somatic cell (plural somatic cells)
  1. (cytology) Any normal cell of an organism that is not involved in reproduction; a cell that is not on the germline. Wikipedia link: somatic cell Categories (topical): Cytology Derived forms: somatic cell nuclear transfer Coordinate_terms: germ cell Translations (any normal cell of an organism that is not involved in reproduction): somatická buňka [feminine] (Czech), somaattinen solu (Finnish), cellule somatique [feminine] (French), cill shómach [feminine] (Irish), 体細胞 (taisaibō) (alt: たいさいぼう) (Japanese)

Inflected forms

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