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MITOTIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or undergoing mitosis
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
mitosis (cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes)
Context examples:
To find the mitotic rate, the number of cells dividing in a certain amount of cancer tissue is counted.
(Mitotic rate, NCI Dictionary)
An astroblastoma characterized by the presence of high mitotic activity, cytologic atypia, and architectural distortion.
(Anaplastic Astroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint protein MAD2A (205 aa, ~24 kDa) is encoded by the human MAD2L1 gene.
(Mitotic Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Protein MAD2A, NCI Thesaurus)
Histologically the tumors are highly cellular with nuclear and cellular pleomorphism, endothelial proliferation, mitotic figures, and, often, necrosis.
(Adult Spinal Cord Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Unlike most other vectors, adenovirus vectors have the ability to infect post-mitotic cells.
(Adenovirus Vector, NCI Thesaurus)
The ras-like GTPase Ran that regulates nucleocytoplasmic transport through the nuclear pore complex (NPC) during interphase also regulates the formation of the mitotic spindle.
(Mitotic Spindle Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The faithful segregation of genetic information requires highly orchestrated changes of chromosome structure during the mitotic cell cycle.
(Mitotic Sister Chromatid Cohesion, NCI Thesaurus)
A WHO grade III meningioma characterized by the presence of malignant morphologic features, including malignant cytology and a very high mitotic index (20 or more mitoses per ten high power fields).
(Anaplastic (Malignant) Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)
Disruptions in mitotic recombination may result in predisposition to cancers.
(Mitotic Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)
Morphologically, it is characterized by the presence of small malignant cells, necrosis, and a high mitotic rate.
(Ampulla of Vater Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
