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spermatocyte

[spər′mad·ə‚sīt]
(histology)
A cell of the last or next to the last generation of male germ cells which differentiates to form spermatozoa.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Spermatocyte

 

a male sexual cell derived from a spermatogonium. Two types of spermatocytés are distinguished: primary and secondary. Primary spermatocytes develop during the growth period, and secondary spermatocytés during the second meiotic division. The latter subsequently give rise to spermatids.

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