Definition of Karyosome

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Karyosome

1. The central portion of a cells nucleus that typically contains a glob of heterochromatin. Origin: Gr. Soma = body (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Karyosome

karyon
karyons
karyophage
karyopherin
karyopherins
karyoplasm
karyoplasma
karyoplasmolysis
karyoplast
karyoplastin
karyoplasts
karyopyknosis
karyopyknotic
karyorrhexis
karyosome (current term)
karyosomes
karyostasis
karyostenosis
karyotheca
karyotin
karyotins
karyotype
karyotyped
karyotypes
karyotypic
karyotypic abnormality
karyotypically
karyotyping
karyozoic

Literary usage of Karyosome

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

1. The Protozoa by Gary Nathan Calkins (1901)
"The secondary karyosome enlarges as though a certain amount of chromatin had reached ... When it has reached the volume of the first karyosome, it is also ..."

2. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"The prophase begins by the elongation of the karyosome to a rod-shaped body (Fig. 21, A, b) which then transforms itself into a dumb-bell (Fig. 21, A, c). ..."

3. Collected Papers (1922)
"The mass itself often stains as black as the karyosome, due to the way in which the matrix around the granules is stained. Why, then, should this mass of ..."

4. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"membrane is well defined and surrounds a large central karyosome, within a single layer of peripheral granules ("peripheral ..."

5. A Text-book Upon the Pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa for Students of by Joseph McFarland (1915)
"A. A vegetative parasite showing three erythrocytes in the cytoplasm and a nucleus in which the nuclear membrane, and the karyosome with its centriole are ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1906)
"Thus the karyosome, which is on the whole a larger and more prominent ... 1, where the karyosome is already divided, and where the chromatic network has ..."

7. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1906)
"Thus the karyosome, which is on the whole a larger and more prominent ... 1, where the karyosome is already divided, and where the chromatic network has ..."

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