See Also: leptonema(medicine)

catalysis (iou) and leptonema (medicine)


catalysis (iou)



catalysis noun. . M17.
[mod. Latin from Greek katalusis, from kataluein dissolve, formed as CATA- + luein set free.]
Dissolution, destruction. M-L17.
Chemistry. The action or effect of a substance in increasing the rate of a reaction without itself being consumed; an instance of this. M19.
negative catalysis an analogous slowing of a reaction.

leptonema (medicine)


leptonema -->
leptotene
<cell biology, genetics> Classical term for the first stage of prophase I of meiosis, during which the chromosomes condense and become visible.