shadow cell
shadow corpuscle

Darkly shadowed cells ranged along either side of the hall.

He glanced at those passing by his doorway and, finding nothing to interest him, stepped back into the shadowed cell once more.

Cages lined a passageway, shadowed cells of rock and iron bars.

Critical-cell: Critical cell is useful when the political climate becomes less permissive than one that allowed shadow cells.

Based on the detection of shadow cells and neuronophagia, Hartelius determined that there was irreversible damage to neurons associated with electroshock.

Hakeswill's face twisted in rictus and, in the gloom of the shadowed cells, his eyes seemed to glitter with an unholy delight.

For example, shadow effects can shut down the weaker (less illuminated) parallel string (a number of series connected cells) causing substantial power loss and even damaging the weaker string because of the excessive reverse bias applied to the shadowed cells by their illuminated partners.