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extranuclear

extranuclear adjective: outside the nucleus.

Adjective

extranuclear (not comparable)

  1. Outside the nucleus.
  2. Outside the nucleus but within the cell cytoplasm.

Origin of extranuclear

From extra- + nuclear.

Questions about extranuclear

What does extranuclear mean?
Extranuclear means outside the nucleus.
What part of speech is extranuclear?
Extranuclear is an adjective.

Words near extranuclear in the dictionary

  1. extranodal
  2. extranodular
  3. extranoematic
  4. extranormal
  5. extranotular
  6. extranuclear
  7. extranuclearly
  8. extranucleolar
  9. extranucleosomal
  10. extranumerary
  11. extraocular

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