dexiotropic

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Mitotic spindles in the quadrant founder cells are skewed clockwise, preparatory to dexiotropic division.

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  1. Dextral, as a shell; turning or turned to the right, as the whorls of a spiral shell; dextrotropous: opposed to læotropic. In Planorbis, which is dexiotropic … instead of being leiotropic, the osphradium is on the left side, and receives its nerve from the left visceral ganglion, the whole series of unilateral organs being reversed. E. R. Lankester, Encyc. Brit., XVI. 661.
  2. Turning to the right hand or in a clockwise direction: said of the direction of cleavage in the eggs of certain invertebrates.

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  • One case involves the dexiotropic division of the —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Mitotic spindles in the quadrant founder cells are skewed clockwise, preparatory to dexiotropic division. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Within each quadrant, the dexiotropic division of 1m —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • (D) Fifth cleavage: the third-quartet micromeres are formed by dexiotropic division of macromeres; cells of both the first and second micromere quartets divide also dexiotropically, but with a slight delay. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • In the 2d clone, the six latest-born nuclei form a unique pattern consisting of three laeotropically skewed columns; as development proceeds, the lower-left nucleus in this array (2d The third quartet micromeres are formed by the dexiotropic division of the 2 M macromeres. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. from Greek δεξιός, on the right hand, + τροπικός, from τρόπος, a turning, from τρέπειν, turn.
 

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