develops from produces adjacent_to ameloblast BTO:0001663 CL:0000053 CL:0000059 CL:0000139 FMA:70576 Legacy definition: A cylindrical epithelial cell in the innermost layer of the enamel organ. Their functions include contribution to the development of the dentinoenamel junction by the deposition of a layer of the matrix, thus producing the foundation for the prisms (the structural units of the dental enamel), and production of the matrix for the enamel prisms and interprismatic substance. (From Jablonski's Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992). Skeletogenic cell that produces enamel, overlies the odontogenic papilla, and arises from the differentiation of a preameloblast cell. amelocyte cell enamel secreting cell secretory cell preameloblast odontogenic papilla enamel