Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Mollusca, the mesosoma.
- noun The cell-plate; a structure almost invariably found in plant- and often in animal-cells, as a series of deeply staining thickenings or granules in the equatorial plane of the achromatic spindle toward the end of mitotic cell-division.
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- noun anatomy The
middle of thebody ; thetrunk - noun biology A transient
microtubular granule formed duringtelophase
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Examples
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“A person can have as healthy a lifestyle as possible, by not smoking, avoiding the accumulation of midbody fat, eat lots of fish oils and other antioxidants, exercise, floss their teeth, and still not control completely how the eye ages.”
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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The new species is distinguished from all congeners by having a melanistic color pattern, with head and dorsum of the body mostly dark-brown to black; absence of postocular stripe; venter grayish-brown, with dark rounded blotches outlining two lateral stripes which become gradually paler towards the posterior region of the belly, disappearing after midbody.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Simeon Biggs, Big Sims, was famous in the firm for his midbody girth.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Simeon Biggs, Big Sims, was famous in the firm for his midbody girth.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Also, final testing of the hydraulic system is behind schedule, and work still needs to be done on the midbody of one of the six test aircraft.
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Simeon Biggs, Big Sims, was famous in the firm for his midbody girth.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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On your midbody, use accessories to camouflage, emphasize, or detract.
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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On your midbody, use accessories to camouflage, emphasize, or detract.
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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TBCCD1 localizes at the centrosome and at the spindle midzone, midbody and basal bodies of primary and motile cilia.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Jo?o Gon?alves 2010
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TBCCD1 localizes at the centrosome and at the spindle midzone, midbody and basal bodies of primary and motile cilia.
Naturejobs - All Jobs João Gonçalves 2010
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