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noun Cell Biology.

one of the minute cells arising from the unequal meiotic divisions of the ovum at or near the time of fertilization.

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Origin of polar body

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby polar body

Poland, invasion of, Polanski, polar, polar axis, polar bear, polar body, polar bond, polar cap, polar circle, polar coordinate, polar coordinates

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How to use polar body in a sentence

And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.
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In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.
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It jettisons jiggling ribbons of joy to every part of my body.
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My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.
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“I have to think her body type played a role,” said Rachel Greenblatt, a Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Harvard University.
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The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
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The sad end of the mission to King M'Bongo has been narrated in the body of this work.
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The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
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The generall mayne body of the planters are divided into Officers, Laborers, Farmors.
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(c) Decomposition of exudates anywhere in the body, as in empyema, bronchiectasis, and large tuberculous cavities.
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British Dictionary definitions for polar body

polar body

noun

physiol a tiny cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced with the ovum during oogenesis when the oocyte undergoes meiosis

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Scientific definitions for polar body

polar body

One of the small cells that are produced during the development of an oocyte and ultimately degenerate. A polar body contains one of the nuclei derived from the first or second meiotic division but little or no cytoplasm. See Note at oogenesis.