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Webster 1913 Edition
Karyostenosis
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Karˊy-o-ste-no′sis
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
κάρυον
a nut, kernel + [GREEK] a being straitened.] (Biol.)
Direct cell division (in which there is first a simple division of the nucleus, without any changes in its structure, followed by division of the protoplasm of the cell); – in opposition to
karyokinesis
.