See Also: pinealocyte(medicine)

lynch (oh) and pinealocyte (medicine)


lynch (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Origin: William Lynch (1724-1820), U.S. citizen who organized illegal trials in Virginia]
if a crowd of people lynches someone, they kill them, especially by hanging them, without using the usual legal process
-- lynching n [C]

pinealocyte (medicine)


pinealocyte


A cell of the pineal body with long processes ending in bulbous expansions. Pinealocytes receive a direct innervation from sympathetic neurons that form recognizable synapses. The club-shaped endings of pinealocyte processes terminate in perivascular spaces surrounding capillaries.

Synonym: chief cell of corpus pineale, parenchymatous cell of corpus pineale.

Origin: pineal + G. Kytos, cell