Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cytioblast . - noun One of the amœbiform cells or cell-elements of the cytoblastema of sponges; a cytode of a sponge.
- noun In cytology: The nucleus of the cell.
- noun One of the hypothetical units of cell-structure.
- noun A naked cell; a protoblast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare That part of a
cell (especially thenucleus ) in which itsdevelopment takes place
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Examples
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Schleiden describes as follows: -- "As soon as the cytoblasts have reached their full size a delicate transparent vesicle arises on their surface; this is the young cell, which at first takes the shape of a very flat segment of a sphere, of which the plane surface is formed by the cytoblast, the convex side by the young cell itself, which lies upon the cytoblast like a watch-glass on a watch" (p. 145).
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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He named it the cytoblast because, in his opinion, it formed the cell.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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