HeLa cell

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He·La cell (h

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Any of the cells of the first continuously cultured human carcinoma strain, originally obtained from cancerous cervical tissue and maintained for use in studying cellular processes.

[After He(nrietta) La(cks) who donated such cells in 1951.]

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