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CYTOGENESIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cytogenesis mean?
• CYTOGENESIS (noun)
The noun CYTOGENESIS has 1 sense:
1. the origin and development and variation of cells
Familiarity information: CYTOGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The origin and development and variation of cells
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
cytogenesis; cytogeny
Hypernyms ("cytogenesis" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Derivation:
cytogenetic (of or relating to cytogenetics)
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