mitoticadj.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) p. xxii The division of the protoplasm..may be indirect or mitotic.

1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 584 The work of Flemming and his pupils in 1884 placed beyond doubt the mitotic reproduction of lymphocytes in these situations.

1938 Collecting Net 13 187/2 If the breaks included the centromere between them..the mitotic chromosome will have the relative sizes of its two arms altered.

1998 N.Y. Times 23 June a 21/1 They have also firmly pinned the responsibility on him for the investigation's pace, expense and mitotic multiplication of issues.

2000 Nature 27 July 355/1 A third mitotic conductor, which coordinates an earlier part in the process.

1893 Proc. Royal Soc. 54 39 Among the cells of the lower layers of the epidermis are found small cells..with nuclei often presenting mitotic figures.

1900 Science 20 July 110/1 The book mark of the Columbia Biological Series has been changed from a mitotic figure in the metaphase to one in the anaphase.

1940 G. S. Carter Gen. Zool. Invertebr. iii. 54 In the mitotic figure of dividing cells of the multicellular body..the asters usually arise from small bodies at their centres.

1967 J. Metcoff Acute Glomerulonephritis vi. 110 Mitotic figures..are easy to find in areas of hypercellularity.

1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 13830/1 To evaluate hepatocyte replication, mitotic figures in hepatocytes were counted in 10 different 400× fields/tissue section.

1907 Amer. Naturalist 41 332 In a series of six public lectures Professor Charles S. Minot has made known the results of his studies, now in progress, concerning the essential nature of senescence...The rate of cell division is expressed by the ‘mitotic index’ which is the average number of mitotic figures found, in sections, among a thousand nuclei.

1908 C. S. Minot Probl. Age, Growth, & Death vi. 220 The mitotic index is the number of cells to be found at any given moment in the active process of division out of a total of one thousand cells.

1962 C. V. Harding et al. in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism 458 The mitotic index of the lens epithelium has been found to vary under different conditions and times of isolation.

1988 Nature 17 Nov. 251/1 MUGs were observed in two Chinese hamster cell lines..within 2 h following the addition of caffeine.., and a mitotic index of 76% was achieved within four hours of treatment with both caffeine and Colcamid (demecolcine).

1894 Amer. Naturalist 28 637 These cells are readily seen to belong to the ectoderm, not only from the directions of the mitotic spindles.

1946 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 33 55/2 The presence of 21 chromosomes (3n) on the mitotic spindle.

1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) i. 21 Microtubules in the form of a mitotic spindle are a vital part of the usual machinery for partitioning DNA equally between two daughter cells when a eucaryotic cell divides.

1889 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 30 196 It may be doubted whether these cells divide only mitotically.

1946 Nature 23 Nov. 750/2 It has long been known that the micronucleus of ciliates divides mitotically while the macronucleus is amitotic.

1960 K. Esau Anat. Seed Plants xvi. 225 The pith meristem is commonly more highly vacuolated than the peripheral meristem, but it is also active mitotically.

1973 Nature 30 Mar. 299/3 The thymus is usually thought of as a staging house through which pass stem cells and their mitotically amplified products.

2001 Nucleic Acids Res. 29 3231 A mitotically stable linear extra chromosome..has been physically mapped.