Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or condition of being aneuploid.
Wiktionary
- n. genetics The condition of being aneuploid; the state of possessing chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an abnormality involving a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number (one chromosome set is incomplete)
Examples
“In an average, healthy man, one to four percent of his sperm has aneuploidy, that is, sperm that has more or less of the usual number of 23 chromosomes.”
“The fault - called aneuploidy - is thought to be the main barrier that has prevented IVF success rates rising above 30 per cent.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Too many or too few chromosomes - known as aneuploidy - is common in cancer.”
“In Friday's online issue of the journal Cell, researchers describe a mechanism that could explain this phenomenon, known as aneuploidy.”
“The method of checking chromosome numbers is called aneuploidy screening, after the Latin for "not the right number".”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“WASHINGTON - A chromosome abnormality called aneuploidy can cause cancer, US researchers said in a study published Monday, confirming what scientists have long suspected.”
“A chromosome abnormality called aneuploidy can cause cancer, US researchers said in a study published Monday, confirming what scientists have long suspected.”
“Updated Wednesday, December 9, 2009 10: 50 am TWN, AFP WASHINGTON -- A chromosome abnormality called aneuploidy can cause cancer, U.S. researchers said in a study published Monday, confirming what scientists have long suspected.”
“Newswise - Mayo Clinic researchers have proven the longstanding theory that changes in the number of whole chromosomes -- called aneuploidy -- can cause cancer by eliminating tumor suppressor genes.”
“WASHINGTON: A chromosome abnormality called aneuploidy can cause cancer, US researchers said in a study published Monday, confirming what scientists have long suspected.”
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- “good, well,†-- from the Greek.
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