Amphiaster

Amphiaster

(Science: biology) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibres diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.

Origin: NL, fr. Gr. _ a star.

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