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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Amitosis, akinesia, or direct cell-division, as distinguished from mitosis or karvokinesis: so called because the nucleus divides by simple constriction without forming a spindle. See
amitosis , with cut.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) Direct cell division (in which there is first a simple division of the nucleus, without any changes in its structure, followed by division of the protoplasm of the cell); -- in opposition to
karyokinesis .
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