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pinacocyte

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pinacocyte [′pin·ə·kō‚sīt]
(invertebrate zoology)
A flattened polygonal cell occurring in the dermal epithelium of sponges, and lining the exhalant canals.
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Does your philosophy foreclose on the individuality of each molecule in the air, each cell in the sea, each atom of hydrogen in the fusion plants of a billion stars, aghast to concede even the temperate uniqueness, the quietly differentiated lives of the pinacocytes, amoebocytes and choanocytes that squat in grove after grove like Quakers at prayer-meetings, polite and silent, sitting at the bottom of the sea.
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