Axoplast

Quick meaning: Axoplast is a noun meaning (biology) A dense structure, with no microtubules, located in the center or close to the nucleus of a cell, and from which radiate axopodia.

Meaning

(biology) A dense structure, with no microtubules, located in the center or close to the nucleus of a cell, and from which radiate axopodia.

Example Sentences

All axopodia appear to arise either from the nuclear membrane or from an axoplast.

Large bundles of axopodia radiate from an axoplast granule at each smaller pore, and the large pore is said to act as a cytostome.

Centroaxoplastids have an axoplast at the centre of the cell, in a membrane-enclosed cavity within the nucleus, and radiating bundles of microtubules in a pin-wheel array (Fig. 6.13j), which is an extension of the cryptoaxoplastid pattern.

Word Forms

• axoplasts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include axopod, axiopod, axioplasm, axoplaxome, axostyle, acroplaxome.

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