A kind of specialized macrophage located in the liver lining the walls of the sinusoids that form part of the reticuloendothelial system.

An informal (and often unacknowledged) barrier to promotion or advancement, in employment and elsewhere, for gay and lesbian people.

An informal (and often unacknowledged) barrier to promotion or advancement, in employment and elsewhere, for gay and lesbian people.

(humanities) the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to a Celtic people

Merkel cell

An oval receptor cell having synaptic contacts with somatosensory afferents, found in the skin of vertebrates and associated with the sense of light touch discrimination of shapes and textures.

plural of ceiling fan

A locked room to incarcerate an inmate in prison.

A species of conifer, Cryptomeria japonica, which is the only species of the genus Cryptomeria.

(neuroanatomy) Any of several unrelated types of small neurons in various parts of the brain which have very small cell bodies.