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oocytelike

oocytelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of an oocyte.

Adjective

oocytelike (comparative more oocytelike, superlative most oocytelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an oocyte.
    • Surprisingly, activation of oocytes occurred in the absence of meiotic resumption, resulting in cells with an oocytelike nucleus and interior cytoplasm, but with a zygotelike cortex.1989 January 3, W M Bement, D G Capco, “Activators of protein kinase C trigger cortical granule exocytosis, cortical contraction, and cleavage furrow formation in Xenopus laevis oocytes and eggs.”...

Forms of oocytelike

comparativemore oocytelike
superlativemost oocytelike

Origin of oocytelike

From oocyte + -like.

Questions about oocytelike

What does oocytelike mean?
Oocytelike means resembling or characteristic of an oocyte.
What part of speech is oocytelike?
Oocytelike is an adjective.

Words near oocytelike in the dictionary

  1. oocyte
  2. oocytectomies
  3. oocytectomise
  4. oocytectomised
  5. oocytectomy
  6. oocytelike
  7. oocytes
  8. oocytic
  9. oocytogenesis
  10. OOD
  11. OODA

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