Definition of Cytaster

1. a structure formed in a cell during mitosis [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cytaster

cystourethrocele
cystourethrogram
cystourethrography
cystourethroscope
cystourethroscopy
cystous
cystoviridae
cysts
cysts by ultrasound
cystyl-aminopeptidase
cyt-
cytapheresis
cytarabine
cytase
cytases
cytaster (current term)
cytasters
cytauxzoonoses
cytauxzoonosis
cyte
cytee
cytees
cytes
cythemolytic icterus
cytidine
cytidine 5'-diphosphate
cytidine 5'-monophosphatase
cytidine 5'-triphosphate
cytidine deaminase
cytidine diphosphate

Literary usage of Cytaster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1890)
"At the pole of the spindle, from the point at which the cytaster radiates, E. van Beneden has seen a small, shining, polar body, which Strasburger says is ..."

2. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1911)
"... nut, nucleus ; see Aster, 2), the star-shaped group of chromosomes in mitosis. Opposed to cytaster. (FLEMMING, 1882. ..."

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