dispireme

noun

di·​spireme

variants or less commonly dispirem

(ˈ)dī+

: a supposed late phase in mitotic division characterized by association of each set of daughter chromosomes into a spireme and now usually considered an observational artifact

Word History

Etymology

di- + spireme

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