spermatocyte

English

Etymology

From spermato- ‎ -cyte.

Noun

spermatocyte (plural spermatocytes)

1. (cytology) A male gametocyte, from which a spermatozoon develops.
   • 2013, Rabindra N. Chatterjee, Lucas Sanchez, Genome Analysis in Eukaryotes, page 71:

     The spermatogonia continue to reside in the gonocyst and form spermatocyte, which begins to increase in size.

   • 2015 August 26, “A Catalog of Proteins Expressed in the AG Secreted Fluid during the Mature Phase of the Chinese Mitten Crabs ( Eriocheir sinensis )”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Fragments of laminin chains can act as biologically active peptides to perturb the blood–testis barrier (BTB) permeability function by accelerating protein endocytosis (e.g., occludin) at the site, thereby destabilizing the BTB integrity to facilitate the transit of preleptotene spermatocytes.

Hypernyms

• gametocyte

Coordinate terms

• oocyte

Derived terms

• spermatocytal
• spermatocytic

Translations

male gametocyte

• Finnish: spermatosyytti (fi)
• Italian: spermatocito (it) m
• Spanish: espermatocito m
• Swedish: spermatocyt (sv)

French

Noun

spermatocyte m (plural spermatocytes)

1. spermatocyte

Further reading

• “spermatocyte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.