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See also: Monaster
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Noun
monaster (plural monasters)
- The single aster formation that forms at the equatorial plate at the end of metaphase in mitosis.
- 1951 November, Shinya Inoué, Katsuma Dan, “Birefringence of the Dividing Cell”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 89, number 3:
- After the encounter of the two pronuclei, one quadrant of the former positive cross of the monaster is missing on the side of the egg pronucleus.
- 2007, Leon P. Bignold, Brian L. D. Coghlan, Hubertus P.A. Jersmann, David Paul von Hansemann: Contributions to Oncology, →ISBN:
- One finds the longest chromosomes in the vascular epithelial cells if the monaster is well developed (Fig. 24), whilst shortly beforehand (Fig. 15) the chromosomes are still rather short.
- 2012, Gerhard Czihak, The Sea Urchin Embryo: Biochemistry and Morphogenesis, →ISBN, page 179:
- At the same time the middle piece breaks down and releases the centriole, around which egg cytoplasm forms the sperm monaster.
- 2013, J. Gray, A Textbook of Experimental Cytology, →ISBN, page 161:
- Large monasters can be produced in egg cells by a variety of methods; drugs, such as strychnine or chloral hydrate (Hertwig, 1887 ), hypertonic sea water (Morgan, 1896; Wilson,1901;Herlant, 1918),and by mechanical agitation (Boveri, 1903; Painter, 1915).
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion).
Pronunciation
Noun
monaster m inan
- (Christianity) monastery (traditional name of a monastery in the Eastern Churches)
Declension
Declension of monaster
Derived terms
adjectives
- monasterski
- monastyczny
noun
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Romanian
Etymology
Noun
monaster m (plural monastere)
Declension
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