Definition of Mitotic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or undergoing mitosis.

Partainyms: Mitosis

Definition of Mitotic

1. a. Of or pertaining to mitosis; karyokinetic; as, mitotic cell division; -- opposed to amitotic.

Definition of Mitotic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to mitosis. ¹

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Definition of Mitotic

1. mitosis [adj] - See also: mitosis

Medical Definition of Mitotic

1. Pertaining to mitosis. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitotic

mitome
mitomycin
mitomycin C
mitomycins
mitophagy
mitoplast
mitoribosome
mitoses
mitosing
mitosis
mitosome
mitosomes
mitospore
mitospores
mitotane
mitotic (current term)
mitotic apparatus
mitotic cell selection
mitotic cycle
mitotic death
mitotic division
mitotic figure
mitotic index
mitotic nondisjunction
mitotic period
mitotic rate
mitotic recombination
mitotic segregation
mitotic shake off method
mitotic spindle

Literary usage of Mitotic

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

1. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1911)
"B. ORIGIN OF THE ' mitotic FIGURE The nature and source of the material from ... The entire mitotic figure was thus conceived as a metamorphosed nucleus. ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1903)
"mitotic figures were found in both cases of acute anaemia, in two cases of ... The number of mitotic figures varies very much, not only in different cases, ..."

3. The Physical Basis of Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919)
"the ordinary mitotic process. The cells then pass into the synaptic stage (Fig. 20, ad). As the chromosomes begin Fio. 19. ..."

4. Normal Histology: With Special Reference to the Structure of the Human Body by George Arthur Piersol (1916)
"mitotic Division.—The details of mitosis or karyokinesis include a series of changes involving the nucleus, the centrosome and the cytoplasm. ..."

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