refragment
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refragment (third-person singular simple present refragments, present participle refragmenting, simple past and past participle refragmented)
- (transitive, intransitive) To fragment again.
- 2015 July 25, “Improved Methods to Generate Spheroid Cultures from Tumor Cells, Tumor Cells & Fibroblasts or Tumor-Fragments: Microenvironment, Microvesicles and MiRNA”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Additionally, spheroids in suspension cultures can aggregate and refragment due to interactions with each other, the spin bar or the vessel surfaces.