1860 J. A. Porter 37 Water..is sucked upward from cell surface to cell surface, until it gets to the leaves.
1956 4 Aug. 10/1 When tumour cells come into contact with each other no adhesion..occurs, and the cell surfaces slide over each other.
2005 96 146/2 The same biological entities, such as oncogenes or cell-surface markers, exist both as normal biological phenomena and as signs of pathology.