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Meiosis vs Synaptonemal - What's the difference?

meiosis | synaptonemal |

As a noun meiosis

is (countable|rhetoric) a figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.

As an adjective synaptonemal is

(biochemistry) describing a protein complex that forms during meiosis.

meiosis

English

Noun

  • (countable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
  • * 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
  • I knew, with one of those secret knowledges that can exist between two people, that her suicide was a direct result of my having told her of my own attempt – I had told it with a curt meiosis that was meant to conceal depths; and she had called my bluff one final time.
  • (uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce (l).
  • Synonyms

    * (cytology) reduction division

    Antonyms

    * (rhetoric) hyperbole, auxesis, litotes, paradiastole * (cytology) mitosis

    Meronyms

    * (cytology) prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, reduction division, equation division

    Derived terms

    * meiotic * meiotically

    synaptonemal

    English

    Adjective

    (synaptonemal complex) (-)
  • (biochemistry) Describing a protein complex that forms during meiosis