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CELL (from Lat. cella, probably from an Indo-European kal seen in Lat. celare, to hide; another suggestion connects the word with Lat. cera, wax, taking the original meaning to refer to the honeycomb)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 604 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CELL (from Lat. cella, probably from an Indo-European kal seen in Lat. celare, to hide; another suggestion connects the word with Lat. cera, wax, taking the original meaning to refer to the honeycomb) , in its earliest application a small detached room in a building, particularly a small monastic
house
  (see ABBEY), generally in the country, belonging to large conventual buildings, and intended for
change
  of air for the monks, as well as places to reside in to look after the lands, vassals, &c. Thus
Tynemouth
  was a cell to St Albans;
Ashwell
 , Herts, to Westminster Abbey. The
term
  was also used of the small sleeping apartments of the monks, or a small apartment used by the anchorite or hermit. This use still survives in the application to the small
separate
  chambers in a prison (q.v.) in which prisoners are confined. The word is applied to various small compartments which build up a compound structure such as a honeycomb, to the minute compartments in a
tissue
 , &c. More particularly the word is used, in electrical science, of the single constituent compartments of a voltaic battery (q.v.), and in
biology
  of the living units of protoplasm of which plants and animals are composed (see CYTOLOGY).


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