Medical Dictionary
cytokeratin
noun cy·to·ker·a·tin \ˌsī-tō-ˈker-ə-tən\
Medical Definition of CYTOKERATIN
: any of a class of fibrous proteins that are intermediate filaments present usually in pairs chiefly in epithelial cells and that are sometimes used as markers to identify malignancies of epithelial origin
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