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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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