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STELLATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center
Example:
many cities show a radial pattern of main highways
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Similar:
symmetric; symmetrical (having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts)
Context examples:
It consists of numerous small neurons, small pyramidal cells, stellate cells, especially superficially and fusiform cells in deeper part whose axons project into the white substance of the cerebral cortex hemisphere
(Multiform Cell Layer of the Cerebral Cortex, NCI Thesaurus)
A small, irregularly stellate, acidophilic cell of the adenohypophysis, having small, sparsely distributed secretory granules and secreting adrenocorticotropic hormone and b-endorphin, which are cleaved from a large prohormone called pro-opiomelanocortin.
(Corticotroph Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
A distinctive Crohn's disease-like reaction (CLR) consisting of discrete lymphoid aggregates, some with germinal centers, and surrounding stellate fibrosis commonly found around colorectal adenocarcinomas in the absence of clinical or pathologic evidence of prior Crohn's disease.
(Crohn Disease-Like Reaction, NCI Thesaurus)
Pancreatic cancer cells can increase the activation of pancreatic stellate cells, which leads to fibrosis.
(Pancreatic Stellate Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
