Medical Definition of Parenthesome
1.
Structure shaped rather like a parenthesis, found on either side of pores in the septum of a basidiomycete fungus. More logically called septal pore caps.
Origin: Gr. Soma = body
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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