spireme
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Noun edit
spireme (plural spiremes)
- (dated, biochemistry) the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.)
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the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis
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