Definition of Nucleoles

1. Noun. (plural of nucleole) ¹

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Definition of Nucleoles

1. nucleole [n] - See also: nucleole

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nucleoles

nucleofuges
nucleogenic
nucleohistone
nucleoid
nucleoid region
nucleoidioplasma
nucleoids
nucleolar
nucleolar-nuclear ratio
nucleolar chromosome
nucleolar organiser
nucleolar organizer
nucleolar zone
nucleolated
nucleole
nucleoles (current term)
nucleoli
nucleoliform
nucleolin
nucleoloid
nucleolonema
nucleolus
nucleolus organiser
nucleolus organiser region
nucleolus organizer
nucleolytic
nucleometallation
nucleomicrosome
nucleon
nucleon number

Literary usage of Nucleoles

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

1. Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research by Bermuda Biological Station for Research (1904)
"These classes are as follows: "(a) les nucleoles ... (c) les nucleoles mixtes, qui sont constitues par la reunion des deux especes precedentes en uu corps ..."

2. Sexual Reproduction and the Organization of the Nucleus in Certain Mildews by Robert Almer Harper (1905)
"The nucleoles also fuse at some time during the process of the fusion of the nuclei. They are extremely conspicuous, bright-red globules, ..."

3. Concerning the Organization of the Spore Mother-cells of Marsilia Quadrifolia by William George Marquette (1908)
"Usually a considerable number of the nucleoles are still present at this stage, ... The other nucleoles lying here and there in the nuclear cavity, ..."

4. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"My opponent admits moreover that the two spots are not nucleoles in the sense in which Zacharias takes them (I call them plasmatic ..."

5. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"... picture of a myelocytic structure, with honey-combing and thickening of the chromatin. These cells are surrounded by nucleoles with the appearance of ..."

6. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"Nucleus from the embryo-sac of Fritillaria, magnified 1000 diameters, ne, nucleoles; /, fibres of fibrillar network; chn, chromatin granules; ce, ..."

7. A Treatise on nervous and mental diseases by Landon Carter Gray (1893)
"The axis-cylinder processes have been traced to the nucleus of the cell, some microscopists having followed them to the nucleoles.1 These axis-cylinder ..."

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