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Definition of Endomitosis

1. [n -MITOSES]

Medical Definition of Endomitosis

1. Chromosome replication without mitosis, leading to polyploidy. Many rounds of endomitosis give rise to the giant polytene chromosomes of Dipteran salivary glands, though in this case the daughter chromosomes remain synapsed. (07 Apr 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endomitosis

Literary usage of Endomitosis

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

1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"... increasing stimulation of megakaryocytopoiesis with decreasing platelet count (rat), 161, 531 plasmatic megakaryocyte endomitosis (rat). ..."

2. Whole Life Cycle of Chromosomes and Their Coiling Systems: Transactions, APS by L. R. Cleveland (2008)
"... to function in the production of an achromatic figure, due to some change in the environment of a cell, is the probable explanation of endomitosis or ..."

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