electrocyte

/ ɪˈlɛktrəʊˌsaɪt /

noun

1. zoology a specialized muscle or nerve cell that generates electricity, as found in an electric organ

Example Sentences

A specialised electric organ exists in each animal's body, which is made up of thousands of cells called electrocytes that are aligned like batteries.

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Angel Caputi, a computational neuroscientist at the Institute for Biological Research in Uruguay, has written that the electrocytes line up “like a series of batteries piled into a flashlight.”

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The eel generates these powerful shocks using specialized cells called electrocytes, in organs that run along most of the length of its body.

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Instead, thousands of cells called electrocytes are arranged along its body, each producing a small ion gradient and therefore a potential difference across them.

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Electric eels have thousands of special cells, called electrocytes, that can store energy like a battery and then discharge it.

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