pyknotic

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Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
21
Letters
8

Definition of pyknotic

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. showing pyknosis
    “a pyknotic nucleus”
    “Several intensely labeled pycnotic bodies point to the occurrence of cell death [...]”
    “rectum of T. derasa showing one morphologically intact zooxanthella and two pycnotic algal cells”

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Etymology

From pyknosis. See Ancient Greek πυκνωτικός (puknōtikós, “serving to close the pores”).

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