mitosis

mitosis

English

Etymology

From German Mitose, from Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos, “thread”) + -osis, probably in reference to the thread-like chromatin seen during mitosis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /maɪˈtəʊ.sɪs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /maɪˈtoʊ.sɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Noun

mitosis (countable and uncountable, plural mitoses)

1. (cytology) The division of a cell nucleus in which the genome is copied and separated into two identical halves. It is normally followed by cell division.

Synonyms

• karyokinesis
• karyomitosis

Meronyms

• prophase
• metaphase
• anaphase
• telophase

Derived terms

• mitotic
• mitotically
• transmitosis

Translations

division of a cell nucleus

Basque: mitosi Bulgarian: делене (bg) n (delene), митоза f (mitoza) Catalan: mitosi (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 有絲分裂／有丝分裂 (zh) (yǒusī fēnliè) Czech: mitóza (cs) f Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: mitose (nl) f, mitosis f Esperanto: mitozo Finnish: mitoosi (fi) French: mitose (fr) f Galician: mitose (gl) f German: Mitose (de) f Greek: μίτωση (el) f (mítosi) Hebrew: מִיטוֹזָה‎ (he) f (mitóza) Hindi: समसूत्रण m (samsūtraṇ), समसूत्री विभाजन m (samsūtrī vibhājan) Hungarian: mitózis (hu) Icelandic: jafnskipting f, mítósa f Ido: mitoso (io) Irish: miotóis f Italian: mitosi (it) f Japanese: 有糸分裂 (ゆうしぶんれつ, yūshi bunretsu) Khmer: មីតូស (miitouh) Korean: 유사 분열 (yusa bunyeol) Malayalam: ക്രമഭംഗം (ml) (kramabhaṅgaṃ), മൈറ്റോസിസ് (maiṟṟōsisŭ) Maori: whāū, whāū pūira Occitan: mitòsi f Polish: mitoza (pl) f Portuguese: mitose (pt) f Russian: мито́з (ru) m (mitóz) Spanish: mitosis (es) f Swedish: mitos (sv) c Tagalog: hatimbutod Turkish: mitoz (tr) Ukrainian: міто́з m (mitóz) Vietnamese: nguyên phân (vi)

See also

• meiosis

Anagrams

• isotims

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈtosis/ [miˈt̪o.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: mi‧to‧sis

Noun

mitosis f (plural mitosis)

1. (cytology) mitosis

Further reading

• “mitosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014