"sustentacular" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "See sustenance.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "text": "A sustentacular tissue",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "text": "1998 [Kluwer Academic], Julian Lombardi, Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction, 1998, Softcover reprint, Springer, page 122,\nDuring spermiogenesis, the highly specialized sustentacular cells provide support and protection during the transformative process."
        },
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          "ref": "2001, Leslie Michaels, Henrik B. Hellquist, Ear, Nose and Throat Histopathology, 2nd edition, Springer, page 72:",
          "text": "Normal paraganglionic tissue contains two types of cell: chief or type I cells, which are neuroendocrine cells, and sustentacular or type II cells, which are not neuroendocrine, but contain S-100 protein.",
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          "ref": "2008, Lilian P. Bergqvist, “6: Postcranial Skeleton of the Upper Paleocene (Itaboraian) \"Condylarthra\" (Mammalian) of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil”, in Eric J. Sargis, Marian Dagosto, editors, Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology, Springer, page 128:",
          "text": "The sustentacular facet is anteroposteriorly elongate and, in some specimens, achieves very broad contact with the navicular facet, while in others only with the cuboid facet.",
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        "Serving to support or sustain."
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          "sustain"
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        "(anatomy) Serving to support or sustain."
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "serving to support or sustain",
          "word": "tuki-"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "serving to support or sustain",
          "word": "sustentakulär"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
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          "sense": "serving to support or sustain",
          "word": "sustentacular"
        },
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "serving to support or sustain",
          "word": "sustentacular"
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        "Sustentacular cell"
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  "word": "sustentacular"
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          "text": "1998 [Kluwer Academic], Julian Lombardi, Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction, 1998, Softcover reprint, Springer, page 122,\nDuring spermiogenesis, the highly specialized sustentacular cells provide support and protection during the transformative process."
        },
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          "text": "Normal paraganglionic tissue contains two types of cell: chief or type I cells, which are neuroendocrine cells, and sustentacular or type II cells, which are not neuroendocrine, but contain S-100 protein.",
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          "text": "The sustentacular facet is anteroposteriorly elongate and, in some specimens, achieves very broad contact with the navicular facet, while in others only with the cuboid facet.",
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        "(anatomy) Serving to support or sustain."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "serving to support or sustain",
      "word": "tuki-"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "serving to support or sustain",
      "word": "sustentakulär"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "serving to support or sustain",
      "word": "sustentacular"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "serving to support or sustain",
      "word": "sustentacular"
    }
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  "word": "sustentacular"
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