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Webster 1913 Edition


Amphiaster

Am′phi-asˊter

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Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ἀμφί
+
ἀστήρ
a star.]
(Biol.)
The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.