plastin
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek πλαστός (plastós, “mouldable”) + -in.
Noun
editplastin (plural plastins)
- (biology) A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.
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editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “plastin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)