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tactoids

tactoids is the plural of tactoid.

Meaning of tactoid

Noun

tactoid (plural tactoids)

  1. An elongated liquid crystal microdomain
  2. An elongated particle, particularly a cell
    • Because immunotactoids may be composed of either immune complexes or monoclonal proteins, which are capable of forming tactoids or microtubules, the variability in the size and the orientation of the tactoids from one patient to another may be a result of concentration or biochemical composition of...2006, Korbet SM, Schwartz MM, Lewis EJ, “Immunotactoid glomerulopathy (fibrillary glomerulonephritis)”, in Clin J Am Soc Nephrol, volume 1, number 6, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1351–1356

Questions about tactoids

What is tactoids the plural of?
Tactoids is the plural of tactoid.

Words near tactoids in the dictionary

  1. tactlessness
  2. tactlessnesses
  3. tactoid
  4. tactoidal
  5. tactoidlike
  6. tactoids
  7. tactometer
  8. tactometers
  9. tactor
  10. tactors
  11. tacts

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