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mitoses

  • plural
    of mitosis.
    mitosis
    noun
    the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.

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Importantly, the researchers demonstrated that the stopwatch mechanism is switched "off" by many types of cancers, effectively allowing them to tolerate aberrant genomes that undergo longer and problematic mitoses.

From Science Daily Mar. 28, 2024

In interphase, the phase of the cell cycle between mitoses at which the chromosomes are decondensed, eukaryotic chromosomes have two distinct regions that can be distinguished by staining.

From Textbooks Apr. 25, 2013

Numerous mitoses could be considered an adequate proof of this process.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.

There were no dividing spermatogonia and few spermatocyte mitoses.

From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part II by Stevens, Nettie Maria

These really negative observations shew that the mitoses play a completely negligeable part in the increase of the cells in the blood itself.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.

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