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imaginal (medicine)


imaginal


1. Characterised by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.

2. <zoology> Of or pertaining to an imago. Imaginal disks, masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvae of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.

Origin: L. Imaginalis.

Source: Websters Dictionary


nucleosome (medicine)


nucleosome
<cell biology> Repeating units of organisation of chromatin fibres in chromosomes, consisting of around 200 base pairs and two molecules each of the histones H2A, H2B, H3 and H4. most of the DNA (around 140 base pairs) is believed to be wound around a core formed by the histones, the remainder joins adjacent nucleosomes, thus forming a structure reminiscent of a string of beads.

Origin: Gr. Soma = body