2. Adjective. (biology) Outside the nucleus but within the cell cytoplasm. ¹
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Definition of Extranuclear
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Extranuclear
1. Located outside, or not involving, a cell nucleus. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extranuclear
Literary usage of Extranuclear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"It is rather a chromatic extranuclear kinetic reservoir, and the noncommittal
morphological designation "parabasal body" should be applied to it throughout, ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"extranuclear Nucleotides Aside from the nucleotides that are constituents of the
nucleic acids that occur in the nuclei of the cells of the body and in the ..."
3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1902)
"Polynuclear leucocytes: Nuclear network is stained a deep ruby-red, with sharply
defined margins; extranuclear protoplasm, colorless. ..."
4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"It is therefore clearly an extranuclear determinant of the Sertoli cell; and this
as yet unique process of somatic differentiation seems to be controlled by ..."
5. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"the centriole becomes extranuclear, and the karyosome acts as a true nucleolus
... (a) Nucleus with extranuclear centriole and aster; (6) the centriole is ..."
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