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orthomitosis

orthomitosis noun: a form of mitosis characterized by an axial, central, symmetric, and bipolar spindle.

Noun

orthomitosis (uncountable)

  1. A form of mitosis characterized by an axial, central, symmetric, and bipolar spindle.
    • The first is that division at any phase of the life eyele should be by this or that method (e.g., orthomitosis) and according to methods which have been studied in detail in the Metazoa.1968, David Weinman, Miodrag Ristic, editors, Infectious Blood Diseases of Man and Animals, page 369
    • Golgi bodies and mitochondria with tubular cristae are present, but not plastids; the nuclei show open orthomitosis during binary fission.1991 October 3, Michael A. Sleigh, Protozoa and Other Protists, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 139

Origin of orthomitosis

From ortho- + mitosis.

Questions about orthomitosis

What does orthomitosis mean?
Orthomitosis means a form of mitosis characterized by an axial, central, symmetric, and bipolar spindle.
What part of speech is orthomitosis?
Orthomitosis is a noun.

Words near orthomitosis in the dictionary

  1. orthometer
  2. orthometric
  3. orthometrically
  4. orthometry
  5. orthominasragrite
  6. orthomitosis
  7. orthomixovirus
  8. orthomode
  9. orthomodular
  10. orthomodularity
  11. orthomolecular

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