| kinetocardiograph | A device for recording precordial impulses due to cardiac movement; the absolute displacement of a point on the chest wall is recorded relative to a fixed reference point above the recumbent patient. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| kinetocardiography | The technique of graphically recording the slow vibrations of the anterior chest wall in the region of the heart, the vibrations representing the absolute motion of the heart at a given point on the chest. (12 Dec 1998) |
| kinetochore | <cell biology> Multilayered structure, a pair of which develop on the mitotic chromosome, adjacent to the centromere and to which spindle microtubules attach but not at the end normally associated with a microtubule organising centre. (18 Nov 1997) |
| kinetochore fibres | Fibres of the mitotic spindle attached to the centromere and extending toward the poles. Compare: astral fibres, polar fibres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinetochores | Large multiprotein complexes that bind the centromeres of the chromosomes to the microtubules of the mitotic spindle during metaphase in the cell cycle. (12 Dec 1998) |
| kinetodesma | <cell biology> Longitudinally oriented cytoplasmic fibrils associated with and always on the right of, the kinetosomes of ciliates. (18 Nov 1997) |
| kinetofragminophorea | A class of ciliate protozoa. Prominent cytopharyngeal apparatus is characteristic of this class as is only a slight distinction between oral and somatic cilia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| kinetogenesis | An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements. Synonym: kinescope. Origin: Gr. Movable + -scope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kinetogenic | Causing or producing motion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinetoplasm | <cell biology> The highly contractile part of a cells cytoplasm. (09 Oct 1997) |
| kinetoplast | <cell biology> Mass of mitochondrial DNA, usually adjacent to the flagellar basal body, in flagellate protozoa. (18 Nov 1997) |
| kinetoplastida | An order of flagellate protozoa. Characteristics include the presence of one or two flagella arising from a depression in the cell body and a single mitochondrion that extends the length of the body. (12 Dec 1998) |
| kinetoscope | <instrument> An apparatus for taking serial photographs to record movement. Origin: kineto-+ G. Skopeo, to examine (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinetosome | <cell biology> Basal body of cilium: used mostly of ciliates. Origin: Gr. Soma = body (18 Nov 1997) |
| kinety | <biology> A row of kinetosomes and associated kinetodesmata in a ciliate protozoan. (18 Nov 1997) |