Leydig cell

or Ley·dig's cell

[ lahy-dig ]

nounAnatomy.
  1. any of the interstitial cells of the testes that produce androgens.

Origin of Leydig cell

1
1900–05; named after F. von Leydig (1821–1908), German physiologist

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