The portion of a cell bearing surface projections such as axons, dendrites, cilia, or flagella that includes the nucleus, but excludes all cell projections. [ GOC:go_curators ]
Synonyms: cell soma
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Note that 'cell body' and 'cell soma' are not used in the literature for cells that lack projections, nor for some cells (e.g. yeast with mating projections) that do have projections.
Term relations
Subclass of:
- cellular anatomical entity
- in taxon some (not Ascomycota)
- not (in taxon some Ascomycota)
- part of some cell