Medical Definition of Blepharoplast
1. Alternative name for a basal body. An organelle derived from the centriole and giving rise to the flagella. Found chiefly in Protozoa and Algae. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blepharoplast
Literary usage of Blepharoplast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fecundation in Plants by David Myers Mottier (1904)
"THE CENTROSOME AND THE blepharoplast. As illustrations of karyokinesis in which
the spindle arises through the agency of ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"—The blepharoplast, or cilia-forming organ of plants, is present in the sperms and
... The origin of the blepharoplast has been the subject of considerable ..."
3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1901)
"of the original blepharoplast. In the cell shown in figure 35 the granules are
... The radiations from the blepharoplast would seem to be simply accentuated ..."
4. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1914)
"The extremity of the body which encloses the blepharoplast is regarded by ...
Adjoining or surrounding the blepharoplast is a small non-staining area, ..."
5. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"In Crithidia the blepharoplast is more posterior and near the macronucleus but
still anterior to it while in Trypanosoma the ..."
6. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"It is a product of the division of the blepharoplast. ... It arises from the
blepharoplast and possesses a basal rod-like support which .stains ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1906)
"The position of the blepharoplast in relation to the nucleus varies in an ...
In a later stage the blepharoplast is more remote, but is bound to the big ..."
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