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hela
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hela has 1 sense
- hela(n = noun.person) hel - (Norse mythology) goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld; Array is a kind of norse deity
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hela, adj. of a strain of human epithelial cells maintained in tissue culture.
Etymology
Henrietta Lacks, whose cervical carcinoma provided the original cells
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