mitosis

English

Etymology

From German Mitose, from Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos, “thread”) + -osis, probably in reference to the thread-like chromatin seen during mitosis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /maɪˈtəʊ.sɪs/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /maɪˈtoʊ.sɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Noun

mitosis (countable and uncountable, plural mitoses)

1. (cytology) The division of a cell nucleus in which the genome is copied and separated into two identical halves. It is normally followed by cell division.

Synonyms

• karyokinesis
• karyomitosis

Meronyms

• prophase
• metaphase
• anaphase
• telophase

Derived terms

• mitotic
• mitotically
• transmitosis

Translations

division of a cell nucleus

• Basque: mitosi
• Bulgarian: делене (bg) n (delene), митоза f (mitoza)
• Catalan: mitosi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有絲分裂／有丝分裂 (zh) (yǒusī fēnliè)

• Czech: mitóza (cs) f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: mitose (nl) f, mitosis f
• Esperanto: mitozo
• Finnish: mitoosi (fi)
• French: mitose (fr) f
• Galician: mitose (gl) f
• German: Mitose (de) f
• Greek: μίτωση (el) f (mítosi)
• Hebrew: מִיטוֹזָה (he) f (mitóza)
• Hindi: समसूत्रण m (samsūtraṇ), समसूत्री विभाजन m (samsūtrī vibhājan)
• Hungarian: mitózis (hu)
• Icelandic: jafnskipting f, mítósa f
• Ido: mitoso (io)
• Irish: miotóis f
• Italian: mitosi (it) f
• Japanese: 有糸分裂 (ゆうしぶんれつ, yūshi bunretsu)
• Khmer: មីតូស (miitouh)
• Korean: 유사 분열 (yusa bunyeol)
• Malayalam: ക്രമഭംഗം (ml) (kramabhaṅgaṁ), മൈറ്റോസിസ് (maiṟṟōsisŭ)
• Maori: whāū, whāū pūira
• Occitan: mitòsi f
• Polish: mitoza (pl) f
• Portuguese: mitose (pt) f
• Russian: мито́з (ru) m (mitóz)
• Spanish: mitosis (es) f
• Swedish: mitos (sv) c
• Tagalog: hatimbutod
• Turkish: mitoz (tr)
• Ukrainian: міто́з m (mitóz)
• Vietnamese: nguyên phân (vi)

See also

• meiosis

Anagrams

• isotims

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈtosis/ [miˈt̪o.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: mi‧to‧sis

Noun

mitosis f (plural mitosis)

1. (cytology) mitosis

Further reading

• “mitosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014