stellate
IPA: stˈɛɫeɪt
noun
- (cytology) Ellipsis of stellate cell.. [(cytology) Any cell that has radiating dendritic processes]
verb
- (geometry) To extend the edges or planes of a polyhedron to form a new shape.
adjective
- Shaped like a star, having points, or rays radiating from a center.
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Examples of "stellate" in Sentences
- It's a stellate blowout evulsion.
- Stellate masses tend to be chatoyant.
- Hairs are common, and are most typically stellate.
- Cortical spiny stellate cells are found in layer IV.
- Fibroblasts were numerous and spindle or stellate shaped.
- This indumentum is a mixture of simple and stellate hairs.
- Belly often with a midventral row of enlarged stellate scales.
- Compound of small stellated dodecahedron and great dodecahedron.
- The stellate ganglion lies in front of the neck of the first rib.
- It shares the vertex arrangement with the stellated truncated hexahedron.
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