Lexic.us

Definition of Nitella

1. Noun. Fragile branching stoneworts.

Medical Definition of Nitella

1. Characean alga that has giant, multinucleate internodal cells. These show cytoplasmic streaming at rates of up to 100 m/sec and have been used as models for motile phenomena in cells and in studies on ionic movement. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Nitella

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

1. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"They consist of but a single " cell," and are cylindrical, with closed ends. They are sometimes 5-10 cm. long. 19. Internode of nitella. ..."

2. The Intellectual Observer (1866)
"ON THE STRUCTURE AND CIRCULATION OF Nitella ... and tie concluding page contained this remark : " But in connection with the circulation of nitella, ..."

3. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1844)
"... observed in the genus Nitella, as illustrative of the peculiar structure recently discovered by Mr. Bowerbank in a fossil wood from the London clay. ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Tazawa (3) reported exchanging the vacuolar contents of Nitella by tying off a ... Alternatively, continuous perfusion of the vacuole of Nitella with glass ..."

5. A Text-book of Biology: Comprising Vegetable and Animal Morphology and by James Richard Ainsworth Davis (1888)
"... at one end by a rudimentary branched sucker results from these. The later stages of development are not known. §8. CHARA AND Nitella (Stoneworts). ..."

6. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"At its base, immediately above the nodal cell, an inconspicuous hyaline cell is separated at an early stage in Chara; in Nitella a somewhat disc-shaped ..."

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