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secondary spermatocyte
The form of the sperm cell in the second stage of spermatogenesis (through which the sperm cells are formed in the testes), produced from primary spermatocytes in the first cell division of meiosis, and giving rise to spermatids, which have just half the normal cell's complement of chromosomes, through the second division of meiosis; enveloped by Sertoli cells in the testicular tubules.