A small, round cell found in the lower part (or base) of the epidermis, the outer layer of the skin.
<pathology> General term for relatively undifferentiated cells in an epithelial sheet that give rise to more specialised cells act as stem cells). ... In the stratified squamous epithelium of mammalian skin the basal cells of the epidermis (stratum basale) give rise by an unequal division to another basal cell and to cells that progress throu...
a type of keratinocyte found in the stratum basale of the epidermis.
Type: Term Definitions: 1. a cell of the deepest layer of stratified epithelium. Synonyms: basilar cell
is a type of cell found in the deepest layer of the epithelium. 
Cells in the deepest layer of the skin (epidermis). All new skin cells develop from these cells.