Definition of Pyknotic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or exhibiting pyknosis.

Exact synonyms: Pycnotic
Derivative terms: Pycnosis, Pyknosis
Partainyms: Pyknosis, Pyknosis

Definition of Pyknotic

1. Adjective. In the field of cytology, showing pyknosis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pyknotic

1. exhibiting pyknosis [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyknotic

pyjamalike
pykar
pykars
pyke
pyknic
pyknic type
pyknics
pyknolepsy
pyknoleptic
pyknometer
pyknometers
pyknon
pyknoses
pyknosis
pyknotic (current term)
pykrete
pyla
pylae
pylagore
pylagores
pylangia
pylangium
pyllour
pylon
pylonlike
pylons
pylori
pyloric
pyloric sphincter

Literary usage of Pyknotic

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

1. The Journal of Medical Research (1901)
"of dense leukocytic infiltration, and a central zone with pyknotic nuclei where no leukocytes are seen. In the pieces in immunized animals there is an outer ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"It has a strong affinity for basic dyes, staining often very intensely, by reason of its pyknotic structure. The nucleus may occasionally show a true ..."

3. The Clinical Diagnosis of Internal Diseases by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1916)
"It has a strong affinity for basic dyes, staining often very intensely, by reason of its pyknotic structure. The nucleus may occasionally show a true ..."

4. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"The bal- > had pyknotic nuclei peripherally by an unstained vacuole which al- ... 'ty-looking hepatocytes had scanty 1 with pyknotic nuclei, nuclear de- o ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"In many cells, single globules of this type were found just outside the pyknotic nucleus, and surrounded by a clear space in the midst of the eosinophilic ..."

6. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1906)
"In the body there was evidence of slight action »n the leucocytes, only a few cells with pyknotic nuclei being ound in the circulation. ..."

7. The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1900)
"As to my own opinion—and that of many other scientists—I must lay down the following theses, which are involved in Vogt's pyknotic theory, as indispensable ..."

8. The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1900)
"As to my own opinion—and that of many other scientists—I must lay down the following theses, which are involved in Vogt's pyknotic theory, as indispensable ..."

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