| kinetic strabismus | Strabismus due to spasm of an extraocular muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| kinetic system | A term proposed by G.W. Crile to denote the chain of organs through which latent energy is transformed into motion and heat: it includes the brain, the thyroid, the adrenals, the liver, the pancreas, and the muscles, that part of the neuromuscular system whereby active movements are effected; distinguished from the static system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinetic tremor | <neurology> A tremor which arises or which is intensified when a voluntary, coordinated movement is attempted. (18 Nov 1997) |
| kinetics | <physics> See Dynamics. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kinetin | <plant biology> A cytokinin used as a component of plant tissue culture media. Obtained by heat treatment of DNA and does not occur naturally in plants. (18 Nov 1997) |
| kinetins | Cell division factors found in various plant parts and in yeast and used as plant growth regulators. (12 Dec 1998) |
| kineto- | Motion. Origin: G. Kinetos, moving, movable (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinetocardiogram | One type of graphic recording of the vibrations of the chest wall produced by cardiac activity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |
| 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) |