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mesne(dictionary)
MESNE(law)
MESNE, WRIT of(law)
MESNE PROCESS(law)
Mesne Profits(law)
PROCESS, MESNE, practice(law)
chromaffin(dictionary)
chromaffin(medicine)
paraganglia, chromaffin(medicine)

chromaffin cells (medicine) and mesne (iou)


chromaffin cells (medicine)


chromaffin cells
Cells that store epinephrine secretory vesicles. During times of stress, the nervous system signals the vesicles to secrete their hormonal content. Their name derives from their ability to stain a brownish colour with chromic salts. Characteristically, they are located in the adrenal medulla and paraganglia (paraganglia, chromaffin) of the sympathetic nervous system.


mesne (iou)



mesne noun & adjective. [mi:n] LME.
[Law French, var. of Anglo-Norman meen MEAN adjective2: for the unetymological s cf. DEMESNE.]
A. noun.
= MEAN noun1 2, 7. LME-E19.
= mesne lord below. M16-E18.
b. adjective.
Occurring or performed at a time intermediate between two dates. obsolete exc. Law. M16.
mesne process Hist. any writ or process issued between the primary and the final process. mesne profits the profits of an estate received by a tenant in wrongful possession and recoverable by the landlord.
Law (now Hist.). Of a person: intermediate, intervening. E19.
mesne lord a lord holding an estate from a superior feudal lord.