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cilium

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A minute short hairlike process often forming part of a fringe; especially: one of a cell that is capable of lashing movement and serves especially in free unicellular organisms ...

chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)

Medical; Human genome

A slowly progressing type of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disease in which too many myelomonocytes (a type of white blood cell) are in the bone marrow, crowding out other ...

clone

Medical; Human genome

1) An identical copy of a DNA sequence or entire gene; one or more cells derived from and identical to a single ancestor cell; to isolate a gene or specific sequence of DNA 2) An ...

cerebral cortex

Medical; Human genome

1) The thin layer of gray matter on the surface of the cerebral hemisphere that develops from the telencephalon and folds into gyri. It reaches its highest development in man and ...

centrosome

Medical; Human genome

1) The cell center, consisting of a pair of centrioles surrounded by a cloud of amorphous material called the pericentriolar region. During interphase, the centrosome nucleates ...

chloride ion

Medical; Human genome

1) Negatively charged chlorine atom, Cl-. 2) A chlorine anion that forms the negatively charged part of certain salts, including sodium and hydrogen chloride salts, and is an ...

chromosome

Medical; Human genome

1) Structure found in the nucleus of a cell, which contains the genes. Chromosomes come in pairs, and a normal human cell contains 46 chromosomes. 2) Physical structure ...