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centrioles

centrioles is the plural of centriole.

Meaning of centriole

Noun

centriole (plural centrioles)

  1. A barrel-shaped microtubule structure found in most animal cells, important in the process of mitosis (nuclear division).
    • The aster is at this period closely similar to those of Ascaris at certain periods, as figured by Boveri, and the red mass with its central group of granules corresponds exactly, I think, to Boveri's "centrosome" with its "Centralkorn" or "centriole" ("centrosphere" with its "centrosome" in...1895, Edmund B. Wilson, “Archoplasm, centrosome, and chromatin in the sea-urchin egg”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 11, number 1

Questions about centrioles

What is centrioles the plural of?
Centrioles is the plural of centriole.

Words near centrioles in the dictionary

  1. centrings
  2. centrins
  3. centriogenesis
  4. centriolar
  5. centriole
  6. centrioles
  7. centriolin
  8. centriologenesis
  9. centripedal
  10. centripetal
  11. centripetal acceleration

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