idiozomen.
/ˈɪdɪəˌzəʊm/, U.S. /ˈɪdiəˌzoʊm/ Cell Biology. Now rare.
= idiosome n. 2.
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1899 Zool. Jahrbücher: Anat. 12 14 At the pointed end of the cell lies a spherical or oval body, homogeneous in appearance, which is stained more deeply by the action of Hermann's fixative than the enveloping cytoplasm... Meves..proposes for it the name ‘Idiozom’, which I shall adopt in the present paper... In the idiozome of the resting spermatogonium I have been unable to detect any granules which could be regarded as centrosomes.
1928 C. W. Metz in E. V. Cowdry Special Cytol. II. xxxvi. 1282 The Golgi bodies..usually appear first in the form of small granules or rods, which during the growth stages typically collect about the idiozome.
1962 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 14 310/1 It seems best to use a term such as ‘perinuclear zone’ for the area in frog oogonia which is similar in appearance to the idiozome in spermatogonia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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