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HeLa cell
or He·la cell, he·la cell
[ hel-uh ]
noun
, Biology.
- a vigorous strain of laboratory-cultured cells descended from a human cervical cancer, used widely in research.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of HeLa cell1
After He(nrietta) La(cks) , a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, from whom the tissue was taken in 1951 prior to her death
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