meiosis

n. 成熟分裂, 减数分裂 [医] 减数分裂, 成熟分裂

发音

UK /maɪˈəʊ.sɪs/
US /maɪˈoʊ.sɪs/

词形变化

meioses 复数 meioses

别名

maiosis miosis

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.

    减数分裂

    不可数 生物 医学 可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

litotes miosis reduction division

上位词 3

understatement cell division rhetorical device

下位词 2

nondisjunction tapinosis

部分词 7

segregation anaphase cytokinesis karyokinesis metaphase prophase telophase

词源

From Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis, “a lessening”), from μειόω (meióō, “I lessen”), from μείων (meíōn, “less”). The biological sense was coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiosis in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. Doublet of miosis.

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