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What does sustentacular mean?

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Adjective
  1. (anatomy) Serving to support or sustain.
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Sustentaculoma arises from sustentacular cells of the adrenal medulla and may be the closest histologic mimic of adrenal schwannoma.
Sthenurine kangaroos, while pedally distinctive, also have the sustentacular portion of the CLAJP located more laterally, as in Prionotemnus, compared to other macropodoids.
Increase in size following emergence from hibernation may be due in part to proliferation of the sustentacular cytoplasm.
The chief cells are strongly and diffusely immunoreactive with chromogranin and synaptophysin, while the supporting sustentacular cells react with S-100 protein.
The sustentacular cytoplasm has a less compact arrangement in late May than in April.
The lumina are filled with cellular detritus and are no longer bordered by a clear ring of sustentacular cytoplasm.

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