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primitive cell

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primitive cell [′prim·əd·iv ′sel]
(crystallography)
A parallelepiped whose edges are defined by the primitive translations of a crystal lattice; it is a unit cell of minimum volume.


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6) Although the oncogenesis of this type of vascular tumor is still unknown, the tumor appears to be related to an endothelial primitive cell.
Not only do these primitive cells provide tissue engineers with a new source of cells to repair or grow organs, they might also be coaxed into generating more-complex tissues and organs than have been possible with differentiated cells.
 
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