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CENTROSOME

Dictionary entry overview: What does centrosome mean?

• CENTROSOME (noun)
The noun CENTROSOME has 1 sense:

1. small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules

Familiarity information: CENTROSOME used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CENTROSOME (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

central body; centrosome

Hypernyms ("centrosome" is a kind of...):

cytol; cytoplasm (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)

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