Squame
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /skweɪm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Squame is a noun meaning (zoology) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
Meaning
(zoology) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
More Meanings
- (medicine) A flake of dead skin tissue.
- (medicine) A squamous (scale-like) cell.
- (anatomy) A bony plate.
Example Sentences
Most of the right temporal bone is well-preserved, with the exception of much of the zygoma and the upper edge of the temporal squame (Plate 8).
EGF increased proliferation and squame formation and induced keratinization in cultured MA cells, an observation heretofore not reported in rat MA cells.
They flatten further and become compacted into a dense keratinous layer known as the stratum corneum. The superficial flake-like squames are eventually cast off (desquamate).
Here the invading cell masses of the cancer consist of short thick squames, and the nearest approach to cell nest formation may be only a whorling of those squames in the centres of the cell masses.
Word Forms
- squames
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include keratinized, epipod, scale, anomopod, apseudomorph, claw.
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