Medical Definition of Polar cell
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| In animals each meiotic division of the oocyte leads to the formation of one large cell (the egg) and a small polar body as the other cell. Polar body formation is a consequence of the very eccentric position of the nucleus and the spindle.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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