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Nucleus

A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.

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Cadre 76% connected

The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.

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Pronucleus 76% connected

One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

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Center 76% connected

A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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Centre 76% connected

To be placed in a center; to be central.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Structure 76% connected

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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Achromatin 70% connected

Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes.

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Chromatin 70% connected

Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.

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Chromosome 70% connected

One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.

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Nucleole 70% connected

The nucleus within a nucleus; nucleolus.

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Nucleolus 70% connected

A little nucleus.

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Atom 70% connected

An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.

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Cell 70% connected

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

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Comet 70% connected

A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very gr…

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Substance part 1

Nucleoplasm 70% connected

The matter composing the nucleus of a cell; the protoplasm of the nucleus; karyoplasma.

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Core 92% connected

A body of individuals; an assemblage.

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