CENTRAL BODY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does central body mean? 

• CENTRAL BODY (noun)
  The noun CENTRAL BODY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CENTRAL BODY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTRAL BODY (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("central body" is a kind of...):

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