keratinosome

keratinosome
A membrane-bound granule, 100 to 500 nm in diameter, located in the upper layers of the stratum spinosum of certain stratified squamous epithelia. SYN: lamellar granule, membrane-coating granule, Odland body.

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ke·rat·i·no·some (kə-ratґĭ-no-sōm″) lamellar body.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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