residual body
Cell Biol.
noun
1Redundant cytoplasm and organelles rejected during the latter stages of spermatid development.
2A vacuole containing indigestible matter resulting from the lysosomal breakdown of cell contents.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society.
- progenote
- progeny
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- progeria
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- progestational
- progestationally
- progestational proliferation
- progesterone
- progesterone-like
- progesterone-only
- progestin
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- progestogenic
- progestogen-only
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- proggie
- progging
- proggy
- proging
- proglacial
- proglottic
- proglottid