spireme
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of spireme
1885–90; < Greek speírēma coil, equivalent to speirē-, variant stem of speirâsthai to be coiled around + -ma noun suffix of result
Example Sentences
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Synapsis must occur at the close of the last spermatogonial mitosis before the spireme is formed.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part II by Stevens, Nettie Maria
In safranin-gentian preparations it stains, not like a plasmosome, but red like the heterochromosomes, while the spireme is violet.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part II by Stevens, Nettie Maria
The spireme here, as also in figure 99, is fine and closely interwound.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part I by Stevens, Nettie Maria
Young spermatocyte, element x attached to one end of a long, fine spireme.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part I by Stevens, Nettie Maria
In figure 107 one sees the spireme divided into segments still joined by linin bridges.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part I by Stevens, Nettie Maria
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