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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In cytology, the paranucleus; an extra-nuclear body in the spermatid, arising from the spindle-fibers of the secondary spermatocyte. This name is also given to many other cytoplasmic structures, such as the mitosome and yolk-nucleus.
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Thorell B, Akerman L, Chance B (1959) Localization and assay of respiratory enzymes in single living cells. absorbancy measurements on the nebenkern.
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