beta cell

noun

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Nearby words

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Origin of beta cell

First recorded in 1925–30

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Medicine definitions for beta cell

beta cell

n.

Any of the basophilic chromophil cells located in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.

Any of the insulin-producing cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas.B cell

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