| prosoma | <zoology> The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod. (06 Mar 1998) |
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| prosome | <cell biology> Raspberry shaped ribonucleoprotein particle (19S) composed of small cytoplasmic RNA (15%) and heat-shock proteins, thought to be involved in post transcriptional repression of mRNA translation: found in both nucleus and cytoplasm. Origin: Gr. Soma = body (18 Nov 1997) |