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mitosis
1887, coined from Gk.
mitos
"warp thread" (see
mitre
) + Mod.L.
-osis
"act, process." Term introduced by Ger. anatomist Walther Fleming (1843-1905) in 1882. So called because chromatin of the cell nucleus appears as long threads in the first stages.
