podocyten.
/ˈpɒdə(ʊ)sʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɑdoʊˌsaɪt/ Anatomy and Zoology.
An epithelial cell in the kidney with many branching tentacle-shaped processes that interlock with those of other such cells, enveloping the capillaries of the glomerular capsule and forming the outermost layer of the barrier through which substances are filtered out of the blood.
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reticular cell1832
torula1833
reserve cell1842
subcell1844
parenchyma cell1857
pedicel cell1858
nettle cell1870
heterocyst1872
prickle cell1872
angioblast1875
palisade cell1875
sextant1875
spindle cell1876
neuroblast1878
body cell1879
plasma cell1882
reticulum cell1882
stem cell1885
Langhans1886
basal cell1889
pole cell1890
myelocyte1891
statocyst1892
mast cell1893
thrombocyte1893
iridocyte1894
precursor1895
nurse cell1896
amacrine1900
statocyte1900
mononuclear1903
oat cell1903
myeloblast1904
trochoblast1904
adipocyte1906
polynuclear1906
fibrocyte1911
akaryote1920
Rouget cell1922
Sternberg–Reed1922
amphicyte1925
monoblast1925
pericyte1925
promyelocyte1925
pituicyte1930
agamete1932
sympathogonia1934
athrocyte1938
progenitor1938
Reed–Sternberg cell1939
submarginal1941
delta cell1942
mastocyte1947
squame1949
podocyte1954
transformed cell1956
transformant1957
spheroplast1958
pinealocyte1961
immunocyte1963
lactotroph1966
mammotroph1966
minicell1967
proheterocyst1970
myofibroblast1971
cybrid1974
1954 B. V. Hall in Proc. 5th Ann. Conf. Nephrotic Syndrome i. 9 This figure shows the characteristic irregularities of the nuclear membrane of the so-called epithelial cells, which we have termed podocytes.
1978 Nephron 22 439/2 It has been suggested that aminonucleoside induces proteinuria by a toxic action on podocytes.
2003 New Scientist 6 Dec. 82/2 (advt.) To undertake research investigating the pathophysiology of proteinuria, specifically the mechanisms underlying podocyte foot process effacement in proteinuric disease.
Derivatives
podoˈcytic adj. relating to, consisting of, or designating a podocyte or podocytes.
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calcigerous1839
apolar1859
monocentric1878
angioblastic1879
mononuclear1886
heterocystous1887
collared1888
oxyphil1893
adendritic1894
neuroblastic1895
amacrine1901
diploid1908
akaryote1909
oat-celled1916
siderocytic1922
hepatocellular1940
promyelocytic1943
podocytic1955
sideroblastic1956
pagetoid1959
melanocytic1961
spheroplasted1973
1955 B. V. Hall in Proc. 6th Ann. Conf. Nephrotic Syndrome i. 2 These large processes were called trabeculae; incompletely pictured here in section on the left of the micrograph and to the right of the podocytic nucleus.
1995 C. Nielsen Animal Evol. liii. 424 The nephridia are made up of cells of a unique type, the cyrtopodocytes, consisting of one part forming a usual podocytic lining of a blood vessel and another part which resembles a protonephridial solenocyte.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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